Self-Reliant Quotes

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

One thing my parents never raised me to be was a diva. I'm pretty low maintenance.

I build a lot of stuff, but I'm not a 'construction guy.' But I'm one of these guys that sits with his hands on his hips and tells you I'm gonna fix everything.

I was always extremely independent growing up.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.

I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.

A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organization.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.