Association Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

— Robin Williams

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great…

— Newell Dwight Hillis

“One of the things that you learn in a rural area like that is self-reliance,” he said. “People do everything themselves. That kind of…

— Richard L. Brandt

“The voices of self-reliance are many and deceptive. In some way, they greet you every day. Their deceptive whispers started in the garden and…

— Paul David Tripp

“The moment you have a self there is the temptation to put it forward, to put it first and at the center of things.…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

— Patricia Sampson

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline…

— J. G. Holland

“Self reliance, always. And cheerfulness.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work,…

— Michele Bachmann

“But you are never the same once you have acquired the knowledge that there is no self that will not crumble. We are told…

— Andrew Solomon

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical…

— Anonymous