Self Reliance Quotes
341 Self Reliance quotes by 199 unique authors
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer,…
— Andy Wilkinson
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
— Robin Williams
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The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices…
— Marion G. Romney
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Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
— John Spence
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Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep…
— Noah Porter
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Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.
— John D. Rockefeller
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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
— Oswald Chambers
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.…
— Newell Dwight Hillis
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Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.
— Marion G. Romney
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids…
— Aldo Leopold
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance…
— William O. Douglas
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
— Demosthenes
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance
— Lisa Murkowski
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
— Twyla Tharp
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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
— Vernon Howard
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Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in…
— Byron White
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Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government…
— Edwin Feulner
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and…
— Paul Rice
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