Quotes about Self-reliance
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
- Walt Disney
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
- St. Augustine
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
- Harry S. Truman
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
- Napoleon Hill
The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
- Matt Chandler
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- Frederick Douglass
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
- Desmond Tutu
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
- Herman Melville
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
- John Quincy Adams
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
- Albert Camus