William Feather Quotes

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

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

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

You cannot rely on other people's support.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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

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

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.

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