Quotes about Self-reliance
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII
— Epictetus
When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.
— Epictetus
Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
— Epictetus
This is God's signal to you: if you want, you are free; if you want, you will blame no one, you will accuse no one - if you want, everything will happen according to plan, yours as well as God's.
— Epictetus
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
— Ezra Taft Benson
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
— Lao Tzu
A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.
— Joseph Brodsky
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
— AA Milne
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
— Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
— Wayne Dyer