Quotes about Self-reliance

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The best place to get help is from yourself.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.