Self Reliance Quotes

341 Self Reliance quotes by 199 unique authors

I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days.… — Theodore Roosevelt
The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat. — Brigham Young
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. — Marcus Garvey
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. — Mahatma Gandhi
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this… — Quentin Crisp
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be that self which one truly is. — Soren Kierkegaard
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want… — Rush Limbaugh
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? — Bob Marley
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! — Bob Marley
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by… — Michel de Montaigne
I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day,… — Robert De Niro
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what… — Bill O'Reilly
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are… — Barack Obama
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline,… — Steven Pressfield
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. — Martha Stewart
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. — Meryl Streep
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. — Thomas Szasz
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde
Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for — Oliver James
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. — T.H. White
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It… — Susan B. Anthony

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