Quotes About Self-reliance

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Freedom and independence is my character.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

He who is served is limited in his independence.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.