Quotes about Self-reliance

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

I shall try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance. But one thing is becoming increasingly clear to me: that You cannot help us, that we must help You to help ourselves.

What is described in Scripture as the basic sin, the sin of taking things into your own hands, being your own god, grabbing what is there while you can get it, is now described as basic wisdom: improve yourself by whatever means you are able; get ahead regardless of the price, take care of me first.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.