self reliance quotes

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

I was raised to be independent.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Work alone is noble.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.