self reliance Quotes

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts."

“My life carries its own meaning in itself.”

“You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices... ...

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.