Quotes about Self-reliance

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Satan mounts his mutiny against God through a deceitful stronghold: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God's heart on trial by whispering insidious lies: "God is holding back on you. He wants you to jump through hoops in order to earn His love. He's stingy. He doesn't have your best interest in mind. You're better off trusting in yourself. Your resources and functional saviors work better then waiting and trusting in Him.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

You can't let other people determine how far you are willing to go to reach Destiny because it's simply not their call. They don't get it, so don't worry about them!

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

He is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.