Quotes about Self-reliance
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
- Aristotle
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
- Epictetus
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
- Cicero
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
- Calvin Coolidge
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
- Thomas Merton
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
- Aristotle
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
- Samuel Johnson
God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength
- Charles Spurgeon
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
- Aesop