Self Reliance Quotes
Self Reliance Quote of the day
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.
No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.
With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.
The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
