Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I've spent my life supporting myself.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.