Quotes about Self-reliance
Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.
— Joyce Meyer
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
— Samuel Johnson
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
— Jimmy Carter
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
— Audrey Hepburn
You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.
— Brian Tracy
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
— Anonymous
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
— Anonymous
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln