Self Reliance Quotes - Page 11

• God helps them that help themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.236

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• I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Heart, Moon

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, Water, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.189, Routledge

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• If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on earth to serve you. If you respect the principle of self-ownership, you understand that no one else owns you and that you do not own anyone else. Only on this understanding can there be peace on earth and good will among human beings.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Understanding, Adults

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Healing

  "Champion of her Sex - Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of her Remarkable Life to 'Nellie Bly'". Susan B. Anthony and Nellie Bly, New York World (p. 10), February 2, 1896.

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• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

  T. H. White

  Graduation, Self, Essence

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.40, Penguin

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• We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Independent, Self

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• Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong Women, Self, Practice

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• We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals.

  Roland H. Hartley

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we never would have supposed, to help all those who truly want a years supply...All we have to do is to decide, commit to it, and then keep the commitment. Miracles will take place.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Religious, Mean, Commitment

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• Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Years

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

  Randy Alcorn

  Self, Worry, Suffering

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• The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Effort, Risk

  Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.

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• He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Chance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Thinking, Consistency

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Courage, Lying

  Notes on Democracy pt. 3 (1926)

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• Success is predictable.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Predictable

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.1, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There is always a better way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Way, Better Ways

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

  Sophocles

  Atman, Helping, Chance

  "Japan's Diplomacy: Ensuring Security and Prosperity". Speech by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, japan.kantei.go.jp. June 30, 2009.

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• 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

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• I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

  Robert De Niro

  Strength, Character, Long

  "Robert De Niro: In Conversation". Interview with A. O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 2012.

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• We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

  James E. Faust

  Religious, Blessing, Giving

  "Reach Up for the Light".

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