Self-Reliance Quotes

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

“The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.”

Epicurus

"God helps those who help themselves."

"Help yourself, and heaven will help you."

Jean de La Fontaine

"Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people."

Grover Cleveland

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.”

Confucius

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

Carol Burnett

“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

Irish Proverb

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”

Orison Swett Marden

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

Michel de Montaigne

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

“Be a lamp unto yourself.”

“Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.”

“Let a man lift himself by himself; let him not degrade himself; for the Self alone is the friend of the self.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?”