Self Reliance Quotes

"No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you." "I have to believe in myself when no one else does" "The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." "Truth is, you don't need some external influence to make you feel happy" "I'm not an example for how people should live their lives " "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability" "Nobody is gonna pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself" "No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do." "Anything that is positive in life always comes from within, not from out there." "Hermits have no peer pressure" "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself" "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn" "If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." "I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men" "To be successful, you need to be an independent thinker" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul"