Synonyms for self-reliance
self-re·liance

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1. self-reliance

   Assurance may have the good sense of a high, sustained confidence and trust; as, the saint's assurance of heaven. Confidence is founded upon reasons; assurance is largely a matter of feeling. In the bad sense, assurance is a vicious courage, with belief of one's ability to outwit or defy others; the hardened criminal is remarkable for habitual assurance. For the calm conviction of one's own rectitude and ability, self-confidence is a better word than assurance; self-reliance expresses confidence in one's own resources, independently of others' aid. In the bad sense assurance is less gross than impudence, which is (according to its etymology) a shameless boldness. Assurance is in act or manner; impudence may be in speech. Effrontery is impudence defiantly displayed. Compare FAITH; PRIDE.

   Synonyms:
   arrogance, assertion, assumption, assurance, boldness, confidence, effrontery, impudence, presumption, self-assertion, self-confidence, trust

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, confusion, consternation, dismay, distrust, doubt, doubt, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, timidity

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1. autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiencynoun

   personal independence

   Synonyms:
   self-direction, self-sufficiency, autonomy, liberty

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1. List of paraphrases for "self-reliance":

   self-sufficiency, autonomy, self-reliant, self-government, selfsufficiency, self-sustainment, self-sufficient, self-support, self-sustainability, independence, self-help, self-sustaining, self-governance

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1. Theodore Couloumbis:

   Meimarakis wins with his talk of cooperating, he got the message earlier and that's going to help him. Alexis Tsipras insists on self-reliance and may pay the price.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

3. Kim Jong:

   The basic seeds and themes of the new five-year economic development plan are still self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

4. Manu:

   Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions: Subjection to another?s will gives pain; True happiness consists in self-reliance.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)