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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.
— Ronald Reagan
If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
— Thomas a Kempis
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.
— Toni Morrison
God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
— Walt Whitman
The best place to get help is from yourself.
— Epictetus
The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
— Henry Rollins
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
— Lewis Carroll
I think it is very important in this business to be an individual
— Lee Ann Womack
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
— Walt Disney
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.
— Peter Kreeft