Self Support Quotes:

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Self, Class, Support, Self Support

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

topic: Defective, Self Support

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Self, Support, Environmental, Self Support

Self-government means self support.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Mean, Self, Government, Self Support, Self-government

I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

- Theodore L. Cuyler

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

topic: Fall, Men, Self, Backsliding, Self Support

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: Self, Order, Support, Self Support

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Freedom, Self, Support, Self Protection, Self Support