Self Reliance Quotes

"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life." "You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you" "Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is Is there anybody I'm afraid of Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw I'd get nervous I don't think so" "You are on your own And you know what you know And you are the one who'll decide where to go" "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore." "The only way to be responsibly is individually and collectively to make decisions for yourself, using your own intelligence and understanding. " "Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg." "Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America." "You are not a lottery ticket." "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness You have to catch it yourself" "Only you and you alone can change your situation Don't blame it on anything or anyone" "I always feel it's important for me to show females that they can be in charge of their own situation" "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." "People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own. " "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free" "The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people, - the less, indeed, other people can be to him" "If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it." "Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us." "I think every woman should have a blowtorch"