Quotes about Self-reliance

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

The gods help them that help themselves.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself...He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.