Self Reliant Quotes - Page 3

• We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Independent, Government

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

  David Livingstone

  Country, Heart, Animal

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?

  Peter J. Carroll

  Philosophy, Party, Fall

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

  George W. Casey, Jr.

  Self, Occupation, Force

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• Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Independent, Reality

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

  Michael Harner

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

  Helen Slater

  Self, Creative, Acting

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• Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self, Requirements

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• I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Growing Up, Learning

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• You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

  Joan Crawford

  Strong, Self, Survival

  Interview in "Hedda Hoppers Hollywood", 1945.

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• People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

  Scott D. Cook

  Government, Pension Plans, Self

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• The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Self, People, Spirituality

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• India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Dream, Country, Strong

  C. K. Jain, Rajiv Gandhi, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (1992). “Rajiv Gandhi and Parliament”

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• Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.

  Leigh Newman

  Growing Up, Kids, Animal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

  John Dewey

  Independent, Self, People

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• America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Self, America, Improvement

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Self, Injustice, Domination

  John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

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• A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

  Alexander Theroux

  Eye, Self, World

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