Rely Upon Quotes

• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Quality

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Education, Sports

  "How to Get More Value Out of Your Education" by John Rampton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

  Abdul Kalam

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography".

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• Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely upon himself only. This is evident in those who seek social position or who push others aside to gain position in fields of business, government, education, sports, or other endeavors. Our genuine concern should be for the success of others. The proud man shuts himself off from God, and when he does he no longer lives in the light.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sports, Humility, Men

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Time, Real, Adversity

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Gratitude, Sovereign, Certain

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• We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Inspirational, Suffering, Human Trafficking

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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.

  Terrence Howard

  Children, Father, Discipline

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• If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Men, America

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things!

  Marshall Vian Summers

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Waiting

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• The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

  Will Durant

  Past, Police, Doubt

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• Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.

  Will Eisner

  Reading, Unique, Artist

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Intelligent, Understanding

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• Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

  Chief Seattle

  Return, Sun, Chiefs

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

  Sam Harris

  Intuition, World, Next

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Trust In God

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

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• It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Hands, Elements

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Wisdom, Politics, Venture

  United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland), Grover Cleveland (1895*). “Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895”

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• We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Country, Hands

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• We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

  Joseph Addison

  Expectations, May, Anticipation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.123

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• Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Enemy, Shapes

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Weather, Fiction, Literature

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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