Quotes About Self-reliance

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Freedom and independence form my character.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.