Self Reliance Quotes

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.

~ Jim Butcher

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

~ Lauren Oliver

To find yourself, think for yourself.

~ Socrates

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

~ Katharine Hepburn

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

~ Thomas Szasz

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

~ Penny Reid

What women are concerned in is developing their own individuality, and hence they refuse to call any man master, be he husband or spiritual guide. Personal freedom is more precious to them than the protection of the best men. The women they envy are not those who are simply wives and mothers, but those who by honest intelligent work have attained distinction in any line of effort, and whose creed has been self-reliance.

~ Neith Boyce

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

~ Plato

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

~ Trisha Leigh

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.

~ Armistead Maupin

What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.

~ M.c. Humphreys

The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.

~ Elton Trueblood

Some humans are made to trust in their supernatural Creator(s) to watch over them, make their lives better, protect them from each other, maybe even save them from themselves and their own actions…Listen, and listen well to that huge silenced inner voice of yours;It should be heard along with all the others. Here is what I heard from mine:“Until proof of the existence of a loving Monotheism-presented God or any supernatural Creator, it is man who will watch over man;We have nobody elseJust usJust each other.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.

~ Paula Stokes

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

~ Lao Tzu

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

~ Neal Stephenson

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

~ Lisa Murkowski

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

~ Daniel De Leon