self-reliant
You want to encourage a sense of independence, self-reliance, and responsibility.
The project aims to promote self-reliance among disadvantaged families.
The courses are designed to develop self-reliance, teamwork, and confidence.

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fair
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high and dry
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self-help
self-sufficiency
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single-handedly
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yourself

self-reliance | American Dictionary

self-reliance
noun[ U ]
us/ˈself·rɪˈlɑɪ·əns/
the ability to depend on yourself or your own abilities:
Learning self-reliance is a slow, hard process.

self-reliant

adjectiveus/ˈself·rɪˈlɑɪ·ənt/
She’s cool, determined, and self-reliant.

Examples of self-reliance

self-reliance
It is of little avail if they are lacking in self-reliance and active curiosity.
That contempt flowed directly from his belief in self-reliance.
These acute concerns developed into a desperate sense of the need for self-reliance.
Children from single-parent homes might have a better sense of self-reliance but a more confused understanding of the relationship between parents (or just the opposite).
Also, many were members of nonconformist congregations, the independent organisation of which produced a self-reliance expressing itself politically, and in the running of friendly societies.
This also restrained the will to live, which may affect their self-reliance and sense of control.
This self-reliance, it seems, carries a degree of ethical accountability.
Underlying this view is the value of individualism, which stresses the virtues of independence, autonomy, and self-reliance (74;93).
We are studying how different mindsets greet this change, one resisting necessary adjustments, another responding with self-confidence and self-reliance.
However, with preference endogeneity, the demonstration effect of a policy which accredits the 'virtues' of self-reliance and of a 'market' mentality can not be neglected.
One must also allow for the possibility of increased localisation of production and self-reliance.
Apart from places where key persons are mentioned without explanation or without their full names, these chapters do justice to the discussion on self-reliance.
Is dependency necessarily something bad and self-reliance necessarily something good?
Strong cultural factors that restrained their use of services, such as a fear of stigmatisation and the pride attached to self-reliance, were repeatedly mentioned.
It re-emphasized earlier models of self-reliance based on increasing the economic activities, productivity and earnings of its members.
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