Quotes About Self-reliance

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.