Best Self Reliance Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I own my life, from head to toe, sorrow to sapience, wonder to woe.”

“You don’t need permission to begin. The roots don’t wait for applause. They just grow.”

“I don't need angels in the air, I carry my wings in my pocket.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.”

“Self-education is lifelong curiosity.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”