Quotes about Self-reliance

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

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.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you really want it, you take it.

I simply refused to believe.

Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can't draw your own boundaries—place your own well-being in your own hands. It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that.

From my tutor: not to become a 5Green or Blue supporter at the races, or side with the Lights or Heavies in the amphitheatre; to tolerate pain and feel few needs; to work with my own hands and mind my own business; to be deaf to malicious gossip.