Quotes about Self-reliance
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
- John Owen
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.
- John Hagee
God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
- Charles Colson
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
- Oswald Chambers
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
- John Maxwell
You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.
- Karen Kingsbury
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson