Top 1200 Self-Reliance Quotes & Sayings

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow the road of self-reliance and self-development - this is the invaluable truth of the Juche revolution confirmed by our army's and people's gigantic struggle in 2016.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.