Quotes about Self-reliance
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
- Anonymous
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
- Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sanitation is more important than Independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.
- Coco Chanel
There are worse places to be than on your own.
- Ernest Hemingway
Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.
- Jim Rohn
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
- John Adams