“A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen. — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
The only person that can ever truly make you happy is yourself. Stop depending on everyone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Offer blessings to everyone and everything you see. Bless the bus for allowing people to get around safely, bless the flowers for… — Self-reliance Copy Share Image
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as you love yourself it doesn't matter what others think. It's not their lives, it's yours, how you see yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always heard people say that time changes things, but in reality I have found, you have to change them yourself,… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. — Fred Pierce Corson Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
