Quotes about Self-reliance

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

Circumstance does not make the man;

he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.