The idiom "you have to rely on yourself for everything" includes self-reliance and starting from scratch.

Self-reliance in a sentence:

1. Northeastern Pennsylvania has to be self-reliant.

2. Don’t make self-reliance an absolute.

3. God only helps those who are self-reliant.

4. The reason why they can survive is entirely through self-reliance.

5. Independence does not mean seclusion, and self-reliance does not mean blind exclusion.

6. Technical assistance should be combined with helping people become self-reliant and increase their income.

7. The virtues he cherished most were the oldest ones: honesty, fairness, and self-reliance.

8. Encouraging foreign private investment may conflict with the desire for greater self-reliance.

9. The self-reliance support program needs to be improved

10. She emphasizes self-reliance and refuses to accept relief.

Sentences for starting from scratch:

1. Her experience is that of starting from scratch.

2. When he came, he had no relatives and no wealth, and he started from scratch.

3. It’s a miracle that you built so many steel plants from scratch.

4. He is a self-made man: a typical person who achieved both fame and fortune through cunning and selfishness.

5. Americans like "self-made people", and they themselves have many living examples.

6. Mr. Murdoch founded Fox News Network from scratch.

7. He became an oil tycoon? A self-made oil tycoon.

8. When he came to the United States, he started from scratch.

9. They built that factory almost from scratch.

10. He became a millionaire and can be said to be a typical self-made man.