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self-reliant

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1. self-reliant - Adjective

2. self-reliant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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self reliant

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

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain. Margaret Thatcher

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream. Edward Abbey

India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere we are impatient. I am young, and I too have a dream. I dream of an India strong, independent and self-reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world in the service of mankind. Rajiv Gandhi

There is one thing I esteem higher than that; and that is for a man to be self-reliant and sure of himself. Henrik Ibsen

Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating - real in a generation of triflers - true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial. William Morley Punshon

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