John Wayne Quotes

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

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

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

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

I don't want to end up being dependent on anyone.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

We always did everything ourselves.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

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.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.