Quotes About Self-reliance

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

My job is my own only land.

Home is within me, no matter where I go, no matter what happens to our planet or our people.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself".

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.