quotes about Self Reliance
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
-- Abdul Kalam -
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
-- Albert Einstein -
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance
-- Daniel De LeonSource : Daniel De Leon (1915). “Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi”
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The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.
-- Henry B. Eyring -
...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.
-- J. Reuben Clark -
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You can't get old without living.
-- Jim BrownSource : "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance
-- Lisa Murkowski -
We will see the day when we live on what we produce.
-- Marion G. Romney -
Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.
-- Marion G. Romney -
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
-- Meryl Streep -
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
-- Thomas SzaszSource : Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor
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Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.
-- Tony Robbins -
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One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.
-- Tove JanssonSource : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.118, Macmillan
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It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.
-- Wally Amos -
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 WhitmanSource : Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.189, Routledge
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr. -
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How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.
-- George A. Smith