„Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„…self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„I agree as to the doubtful value of competitive examination. The qualities which you really want, viz., self-control, self-reliance, habits of accurate thought, integrity and what you generally call trustworthiness, are not decided by competitive examination, which test little else than the memory.“
— Florence Nightingale
„Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.“
— Harper Lee