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self-reliance
The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence.
📑 Synonyms:
self-sufficiency
💬 Quotations
The present sorrow always exceeds its predecessors—not so the present joy; comparison exaggerates the one, while it diminishes the other; and people talk of their youth as if it had not been a period of feverish sensitiveness, awkward embarrassments, many heart-burnings, and an utter want of that self-reliance which alone can ensure content.