Rely Quotes

• You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

  Frank Zappa

  Beauty, Writing, Atheism

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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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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• A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.

  David Ragan

  Decision, Want, Helping

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  Epictetus

  Life, Hope, Niece

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, 4th Of July, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

  Leon Festinger

  Memories, Long, Done

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• We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

  Shakti Gawain

  Intuition, Culture, World

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Lying, Blow

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Teamwork, Humorous

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• Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Faith, Events

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• Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

  Gordon Livingston

  Intuition, Important, Maps

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• One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  One Thing, Uncertainty

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• We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Strength, God, Religious

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• The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

  Peter Atkins

  Rely Upon, Consciousness, Unfolding

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Independent, Men, Organization

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• Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Twenties, Four

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• Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Grace, Helping

  Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (2013). “The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Writing, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.225, Read Books Ltd

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• The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Done, Pay

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• Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

  Horace

  Wise, Character, Passion

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

  Joko Beck

  Things In Life, One Thing

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