Quotes about Self-reliance
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
- George Washington
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You must do it alone.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
- Tina Fey
But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.
- Clayton M. Christensen
when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.
- Virginia Woolf
I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me
- Virginia Woolf
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Lao Tzu
she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
- Charles Dickens