Self Reliance Quotes - Page 5

• And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Heart, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Self-reliance conquers any difficulty.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Self, Conquer, Difficulty

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• Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

  Abdul Kalam

  Respect, Self Esteem, Judging

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• I'd rather die my way than live yours.

  Lauren Oliver

  Strong, Women, Independent

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• 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, Majority

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

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• 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

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• We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

  Robert D. Hales

  Religious, Sacrifice, Self

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• Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Self, Way, Calm

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Single, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Fitness, Motivational Workout, Work Out

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• Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

  Mark Steyn

  Self, Europe, Culture

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.

  Edwin Feulner

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Sacrifice, Self, Feelings

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• For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Adventure, Self, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.17, Canongate Books

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• Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.

  Swami Paramananda

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

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• There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

  James Allen

  Confused, Sacrifice, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Consistency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

  Guy Claxton

  Encouragement, Teaching, Self

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Joy, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик

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• Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

  Bob McDonnell

  Jobs, Self, People

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