Quotes about Self-reliance
Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind allegiance to the Democratic party.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
- John F. Kennedy
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
- Zig Ziglar
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
- Ayn Rand
And man will go on. Man, not men.
- Ayn Rand
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
- Brigham Young
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
- Ayn Rand
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
- Ayn Rand
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
- Charles Spurgeon