Top 17 Self-Reliant Quotes

Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year‘s supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

When you go back and look at American history, it’s not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren’t self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn’t survive.

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease – I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are looking to make India self-reliant in terms of power requirement, along with providing carbon-free sources of power, thus improving India’s position globally.

My mother has taught me to be self-reliant, independent and ambitious. She has taught me to chase my goals even though nobody believes in you, you need to believe and you need to fly.

Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don’t need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise – the Wicked Witch.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don’t mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.

The most important thing, I’ve found, is to be self-reliant.