Quotes About Self-reliance

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

This state of independence shall be!

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.