Self-Reliance Quotes

"No man may make another free."

"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Go, get education, be self-reliant, be industrious; work, gather wisdom and riches."

Savitribai Phule

"Go, get education. Be self-reliant, be industrious."

Savitribai Phule

"A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped."

James Allen

"Life is lived on one's own strength; others' shoulders are used only to carry the dead."

Bhagat Singh

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."

Douglas MacArthur

"Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm."

Sidney J. Phillips

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."

Josiah Gilbert Holland

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”

“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries!”

“Paddle your own canoe.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”

“Fortune always favours the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”

“Depend upon your own personal exertions.”