Depends Quote by John Banville

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

— Alexander Graham Bell

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

— George Bernard Shaw

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do…

— Anonymous

In her estimation, a man doesn't have to be much if he has much.

— Anonymous

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

— John McCain

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

— Anonymous

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

— Samuel Johnson

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

— Samuel Johnson

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

— Blaise Pascal