God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
~ Aeschylus
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
~ Josiah Royce
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
~ Menander
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
~ Jean De La Fontaine
God has entrusted me with myself.
~ Epictetus
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.
~ Michel De Montaigne
If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it.
~ Jonathan Winters
To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
~ William Wordsworth
I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice my responsibility win or lose only I hold the key to my destiny.
~ Elaine Maxwell
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.
~ Jane Rule
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
~ Patricia Sampson
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
~ Margaret Sanger
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
~ Clementine Paddleford
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
~ James Lane Allen
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
~ Robert C. Peale
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
~ William E. Henley
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.
~ Billie Jean King
A man is a lion in his own cause.
~ Scottish Proverb
For they can conquer who believe they can.
~ Virgil
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.
~ Charles Montesquieu
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
~ William Ellery Channing
Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.
~ Gotthold E. Lessing
