Quotes about Self-reliance

Your ability to choose became your superpower.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.