Quotes about Self-reliance

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

We must not be dependent on the judgment of the world or the flesh; in fact, we must not be dependent on the judgment even of our own hearts regarding ourselves.

We must not be dependent on the judgment of the world or the flesh; in fact, we must not be dependent on the judgment even of our own hearts regarding ourselves.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—"professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up and left the room.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

People who changed the world have declared independence from other people's expectations.