Quotes about Self-reliance

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

We must demand that blacks work, stop making babies out of wedlock, and raise their children.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

If you want French fries, then make them yourself from whole potatoes and unrefined, unprocessed oil.

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."