Quotes about Self-reliance
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
- Seneca
Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
- Paulo Coelho
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
- Aldous Huxley
From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.
- Walt Whitman
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
- John Milton
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson