Self Reliance Quotes

"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do" "We are all alone born alone die alone and in spite of True Romance magazines we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that in spite of our company we were alone the whole way I do not say lonely at least not all the time but essentially and finally alone This is what makes your self-respect so important and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness" "It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young" "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us" "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you" "Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself." "Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's" "Your own path you make with every step" "Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself." "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me" "The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else." "I resist, therefore I exist" "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself." "Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are without regard to place or person" "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light" "The man who can best get along with women, is the man who can get along without them" "The wisest men follow their own direction" "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself."