Quotes about Self-reliance
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
- Aesop
I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.
- Holly Hunter
capable woman you are and
- Rachel Hauck
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
- Randy Alcorn
I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.
- Lady Colin Campbell
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
- Joseph Wirthlin