Self Reliance Quotes

341 quotes by 210 authors

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we… — Ezra Taft Benson
God loves to help him who strives to help himself. — Aeschylus
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her,… — Anne Bronte
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and… — Carrie Brownstein
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. — William Jennings Bryan
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
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… — Thomas Aquinas
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. — Carl Sandburg
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B. C. Forbes
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing… — Andrew Carnegie
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you. — Jean de La Fontaine
Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither… — Michele Bachmann
Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. — William Matthews
One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have… — Michael Josephson
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker. — Albert Goodwill Spalding
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in… — H. L. Mencken
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt

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