Self-reliance (and similar compound nouns) may refer to:

• A core element of individualism

• Self-sustainability

• Self-help

• "Self-Reliance", an essay by transcendental writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Self Reliance (film), a 2023 film directed by Jake Johnson

• "Self Reliance" (Dawson's Creek), a 2000 television episode

• Self Reliance (political party), in Ukraine

• Juche (), the state ideology of North Korea, typically associated with self-reliance