self reliance quotes

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I don’t want followers.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Nobody is my boss.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I got my own back.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.