Robert Greene

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

English Playwright

Sukarno

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.

Indonesian Statesman

John H. Reagan

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.

American Politician

Jerry Brown

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

Ram Nath Kovind

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

Indian Politician

Joan Crawford

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

American Actress

Orson Bean

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

American Actor

Reinhold Messner

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

Italian Explorer

Scott Cook

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

American Businessman

Lee Radziwill

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

American Celebrity

Usually carries a positive meaning, suggesting strength and independence.

Positive Trait

Doesn't mean one must do everything alone; seeking advice is still self-reliant.

Not Isolation

Can mean different levels of independence in different contexts, such as personal or societal.

Context Specific

 And just like that, as soon as I said, "Yes, you may help me," I felt a tingling of hope and some sort of control coming back. And if you think about it, isn't it so weird we spend all of childhood being so good at asking for help and are expected to grow up to be these self-reliant human beings and we get so good at it

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 and make sure that everybody can stay warm and safe. It's a matter of life and death in the Arctic in the winter, having good shelter. There's no one we can call out here. There's nowhere we can go. We're out on the coastal plain of the Arctic Ocean. We need to be totally self-reliant.

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 which places high value on work, so older people who are no longer working aren't respected. Another reason is our American emphasis on the virtues of self-reliance and independence, so we instinctively look down on older people who are no longer self-reliant and independent.

Jared Diamond: How...

 growing up together or adopted and raised apart. And it turns out that growing up in the same home does not make children noticeably more alike in how successful they are, or how happy or self-reliant and so on. Imagine if you had been taken from birth

Yuko Munakata: The...

 into a primitive autarchy, self-reliant and completely ineffectual on the global scale. They both meant it, and there was some truth to each of their claims, because each side was grossly exaggerating the views of the other in order to fight their war.

Hamilton vs. Madison and...

 are no longer working on respected another reason is our American emphasis on the virtues of self-reliance and independence so that we instinctively scorn all the people who are no longer self-reliant and independent and still a

Jared Diamond: Lessons...

 but one that was more hospitable than what lay outside. Today, this area offers a partial record of that secret, self-reliant world, imagined and built for survival and the preservation of freedom.

The secret society of...

 He had a personality that was perfectionistic and self-reliant, and that made him less likely to seek help from others. He had experienced triggering events at the school

My son was a Columbine...

 to become self-reliant. I know better than anyone that initiatives created by refugees work. They need to be internationally recognized and supported.

Refugees want...

 proud and self-reliant cats come and go on their terms

Self-reliant

Positive Trait

Not Isolation

Context Specific

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