Self Reliance Quotes

"Only I can change my life No one can do it for me" "The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself" "You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct" "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you" "Know that you are always your own best teacher, and the answers are always right at hand waiting for you to take the next step with courage and faith." "Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself " "I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all " "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live" "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow" "Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below." "I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me." "I believe in the value of hard work and setting your own course" "Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself." "Never ask for anything. Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will make the offer themselves and give everything themselves." "A wise man never loses anything if he has himself." "The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self." "Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none" "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs" "There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point"