Self-Reliance Quotes

“Perseverance is sometimes but another word for self-reliance.”

“The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.”

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“I have learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings.”

“How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?”

“Self is the lord of self; who else could be the lord?”

“By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. No one can purify another.”

“Be a lamp unto yourselves; be a refuge unto yourselves.”

"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."

Confucius

"Life is lived on its own. Other's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral."

Bhagat Singh

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

Savitribai Phule

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"I am my own muse."

Frida Kahlo

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison."

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

Arthur Ashe

“If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.”

Anne Isabella Ritchie

“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.”

“God helps those who help themselves.”

Algernon Sidney