Mao Zedong Quotes About Self Reliance

Quotes about: Self Reliance

• What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Self Reliance, Overcoming

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

• In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Sight, Achievement

  Zedong Mao (1967). “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao Tsê-tung”

• The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Struggle, Destiny

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.198, China Books

• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Army, Self

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

• Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Fighting

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.197, China Books

• The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Self Reliance

  Zedong Mao (1954). “Selected Works”

• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Stress, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

• New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Effort, Sailing

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

• At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Yield, Difficult Situations

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

• To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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