Quotes about Self-reliance

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Your ability to choose became your superpower.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.