1. self-reliant - Adjective
2. self-reliant - Adjective Satellite
Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
Source: Webster's dictionaryself reliant
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