Quotes about Self-reliance

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The best place to get help is from yourself.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.

I will not serve"—

Do you know when she started praising the Wallers so highly?" Mama went on. "The day she left them. As long as she was there, she had nothing but complaints. The Wallers couldn't compare with the van Hooks where she'd been before. But at the van Hooks she'd actually been miserable. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.