self-reliant philosophy Quotes

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

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

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.