Quotes about Self-reliance
Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.
- Isabel Allende
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
- James A. Garfield
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
- Euripides
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.
- Anonymous
The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.
- Wayne Dyer
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
- Henry David Thoreau
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
- James Howell
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
- Mark Twain
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
- George Bernard Shaw