self-reliance quotes

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Better to rely on oneself than to rely on others.
If you want to feast on sea-dragon's flesh, go down to the sea yourself.
Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush- ...
Therefore, as necessarily we protect our children from harm, we are nevertheless not too quick to come between them and a negative ...
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because oth ...
Rise.
Let us combine. There are no magics or elves
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Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an ho ...
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be ex ...
One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry about ...
To see self-sufficiency as the hallmark of maturity conveys a view of adult life that is at odds with the human condition, a view ...
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