Self reliance Quotes · Page 9

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

— Calvin Coolidge

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

— Twyla Tharp

Don't worry about what others can do for you…worry about what you can do for yourself!

— Suzie Pierce

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

— Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot give someone else the responsibility of your joy... being happy is a choice you must make.

— Mercy Pheona

Get UP and change your OWN LIFE. Stop waiting for someone else to walk into your life, and change it for you.

— Sonya Parker

The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

— Anonymous

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes…

— Mark Steyn

My life has consisted of so many struggles and hills to climb,it is within these fumbles that I try not to stumble!

— FredericaEhimen

A strong woman is independent, knows who she is, accomplishes her goals, relies on no one, and can overcome any obstacle thrown…

— Jenna Bognar

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less…

— Glenn Reynolds

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end…

— Robert De Niro

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one…

— Anna Pavlova

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form…

— Charlie Sheen

“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still…

— Agnes Chew

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that…

— Sharon Maas

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just…

— Burning Spear

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of…

— Cody Lundin

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face…

— Darren Shan

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on…

— Bjork

True happiness comes from within yourself, not from someone else. Stop searching, start living.

— Anonymous

“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

— Taizan Maezumi

Act like a good advocate for yourself in your journey of life, not as a victim.

— Senoraroy

Never be dependent to anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you're in darkness..

— Anonymous

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

— Albert Goodwill Spalding

The only person that can ever truly make you happy is yourself. Stop depending on everyone else.

— Anonymous

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will become frustrated if you try to make things happen on your own strength instead of relying on God.

— Craig Williams

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Here's a piece of advice: Never put your happiness in someone elses hands.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

— Anonymous

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

— Sarah Dessen

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

— Brigham Young

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln