Quotes About Self-reliance

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

The less government we have the better.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Have the government get out of the way.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Great minds think for themselves.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.