Quotes about self-reliance

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

— Aeschylus

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

— St. Thomas Aquinas

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

— Demosthenes

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

— Henrik Ibsen

If it is to be, it is up to me.

— William H. Johnsen

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

— Jean De La Fontaine

God helps them that help themselves.

— Proverb

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

— Frederick W. Robertson

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

— Patricia Sampson

God the almighty and all terrible, who expects us to do something to help ourselves.

— Dorothy Serrity

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

— Sophocles

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

— Meryl Streep

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance.

— The Laws of Manu

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

— David Thomas

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

— Source Unknown

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

— Source Unknown

Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.

— Source Unknown

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense

— Harold Sherman