Self Reliance Quotes

341 Self Reliance quotes by 199 unique authors

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach.… — Walt Whitman
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal… — James Allen
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. — Henry David Thoreau
Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time. — Sarah Dessen
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. — Nicholas Sparks
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a… — Rebecca Solnit
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we… — Thomas S. Monson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength… — Thomas Hardy
God helps them that help themselves. — Benjamin Franklin
There is always a better way. — Thomas A. Edison
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather die my way than live yours. — Lauren Oliver
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to… — John Ortberg
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in… — Robert Browning

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