Quotes about Self-reliance
The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and
— John Wooden
Be true to yourself. You know what's right. Don't let someone else decide for you.
— John Wooden
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Fear is trusting in your own power.
— Marianne Williamson
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
— Wayne Dyer
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
— Mark Twain
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
— Albert Ellis
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
— Anne Frank