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No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. -- Mitch Daniels

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is emphatically self-made. -- John Henry Newman

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture -- Lydia Maria Francis Child

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make -- Stephen R. Covey

Most people, in the end, really are all on their own. -- Nova Ren Suma

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire -- Catherine Ponder

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. -- Epicurus

People cannot live completely by themselves. -- Hiroo Onoda

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules. -- Wayne Dyer

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities. -- Stephen R. Covey

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself. -- William George Jordan

A self employee will always walk an extra mile, work an extra time -- Ronnie Cornelisz

Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other's backs - no matter what - so that everyone comes out future strong. -- Bill Jensen

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient. -- David Batstone

The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility - all in the name of independence. -- Stephen R. Covey

Autonomy and dependency are like light and shade, caught in the pull of each other's gravity, until, after considerable trial and error, each individual can find his or her own place in the world. -- Haruki Murakami

We also need to consider letting go of the myth of self-sufficiency. One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. -- Brene Brown

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity. -- Margaret J. Wheatley

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. -- Theodore Roosevelt

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people. -- Keith B. Mcmullin

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism. -- Rush Limbaugh

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him. -- William Nicholson

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support. -- Isadore Sharp

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

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. -- J. C. Chandor

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. -- Benjamin Franklin

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day. -- Jamie Babbit

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness. -- Swami Vivekananda

In business for yourself, but not by yourself. -- Ray Kroc

When someone is self-sufficient, when he has all the answers to all the questions, it's a sign that God is not with him. Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra, 2010 -- Julie Schwietert Collazo

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height. -- Gautama Buddha

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made. -- Michael Eric Dyson

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. -- Louis Kronenberger

Independence is great but real strength is being able to ask for help when you need it. -- Tracey Ward

Self-trust is the first secret of success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dependable human beings are not a resourceful one. -- Henry Johnson Jr

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on. -- Catherine Asaro

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. -- Imran Khan

I'm very independent.
I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care. -- Scarlett Johansson

Being self-owned is a state of mind. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word -- Laverne Cox

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. -- Scott Cook

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient. -- Sergei Ivanov

The self cannot be self without other selves. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

self respect. self reliance. self control. -- John Dos Passos

I am the self-consumer of my woes, -- John Clare

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. -- Albert Bandura

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. -- Chris Guillebeau

themselves and their own -- Benjamin Franklin

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. -- John Dewey

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources. -- Bo Bennett

I like women who are self-sufficient. -- Ty Pennington

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work. -- Tony Robbins

Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own. -- Kim John Payne

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. -- Hanif Kureishi

Self love is the instrument of our preservation. -- Voltaire

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured. -- Max Brooks

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Well, I'm an independent person. -- Victoria Justice

Being independent ... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. -- Martin Scorsese

Independence doesn't have to mean being alone. -- Melissa Belle

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business. -- Marcy Kaptur

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Independent people can get what they want through -- Stephen R. Covey

The Self Is Not Portable
The self is not
portable. It
cannot be packed.
It comes sneaking
back to any place
from which it's
been extracted,
for it is nothing alone.
It is not an entity.
The ratio of self
to home: one part
in seventy. -- Kay Ryan

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. -- Deepak Chopra

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical. -- Zig Ziglar

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self. -- George W. Bush

The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort -- Ulf Wolf

We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something. -- G.k. Chesterton

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked. -- Sylvia Plath

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. -- Euripides

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now. -- Kayla Krantz

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival. -- William Powell

Equip yourself for your own needs. -- Patti Digh

You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient. -- John Ortberg

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves. -- Aletheia Luna

Be strong to be useful. -- Georges Hebert

You want people who are self-starters. -- Blum, David

The more self-sufficient we are, the less we need others. The less we need others, the less likely we are to form the bonds of true community. Convenience enhances self-reliance, increases ease, and ironically, separates us from real relationships with people who have real needs. -- Jeff Shinabarger

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. -- Nicholas Negroponte

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips. -- Newell Dwight Hillis

All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory. -- Willard Gaylin

There is no one subsists by himself alone. -- Owen Feltham

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day. -- Mother Teresa

No man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself. -- Anandi Gopal Joshi

Nobody in the world can succeed alone. -- Ernesto Sirolli

The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. -- Seneca.

When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations. -- Al Jaffee

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay. -- Tony Hoare

You can only depend on one person and that is you. -- Debasish Mridha

In business for yourself, not by yourself. -- William James

I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars. -- Courtney Barnett

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth. -- Horace Kephart

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you. -- B.c. Forbes