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Quotes about Self-reliance

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
- Dolly Parton
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama
The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand
Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self
- Joseph Campbell
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
- Michael Douglas
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
- Marilyn Monroe
Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!
- Andy Andrews
We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.
- John F. Kennedy
It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
- Seth Godin
Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Will Rogers
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr