self-reliance Quotes

“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”

″‘Tell you!’ he exclaimed. ‘And what is going to happen when there is nobody to tell you? Are you never going to think for yourself?‘”

“An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”

“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance.”

“We’ve got to learn to start believing in ourselves because if we don’t — who will?”

“I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally strong, determined, strong-willed, self-reliant, and independent.”

“There is the situation of the city—to find a place where nothing need be imported is wellnigh impossible.”

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius.”

″... all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations;”

“Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….”