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Self Reliance Quotes & Sayings

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Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

[H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others. — Chinua Achebe

One thing I learned in life, the only true friend you have in this world is your self. — Auliq Ice

A secure individual ... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility. — Harry Browne

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham

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

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage. — Alexander Suvorov

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West

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

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. — Plato

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. — Pawan Mishra

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. — Henry David Thoreau

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. — Joe Frazier

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are constantly invited to be what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become — Sunday Adelaja

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger — Richard Proenneke

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus

One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment. — Marty Rubin

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope. — Louis L'Amour

The virtue in most request is conformity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. — Majid Kazmi

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Education is experience and experience is self-reliance. — T.H. White

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

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends ... if you [have] five, you're a rich man ... . — Thomas J. Stanley

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance. — Bob McDonnell

Self-education is lifelong curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

self respect. self reliance. self control. — John Dos Passos

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane

Dance with your rhythm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline. — Gurcharan Das

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. — Lao-Tzu

The happiness you seek can be found within yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance. — Al Spalding

Engrave on your heart; love, hope and faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. — William Matthews

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Disaster mitigation ... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering. — Ian Davis

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion. — Bill O'Reilly

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom - Social Security is immoral because it subverts both. — Don Watkins

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance — Gustavus Franklin Swift

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We will see the day when we live on what we produce. — Marion G. Romney

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. — Robert M. Pirsig

Those who are weak in spirit, desire to make others weaker.
While the strong spirit, desire to empower others to be stronger. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest thing to conquer is self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can only depend on one person and that is you. — Debasish Mridha

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again. — Stewart O'Nan

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. — Henry Rollins

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. — John Piper

A poor childhood in West Virginia had left Maura with a strong sense of self-reliance, a high tolerance for discomfort, and a black sense of humor. — Maggie Stiefvater

Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone. — Amanda Boyden

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. — Carlos Castaneda

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward — Patricia Sampson

God never encourages self-reliance. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules. — Wayne Dyer

You have to renew your mind with positive thoughts daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

If you're not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy! — Lorii Myers

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect. — Ronald Reagan

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy. — Richie Norton

Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty — Yogi Bhajan

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. — Thomas Szasz

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. — William Wordsworth

I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance' ... — Ransom Riggs

She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger. — Catherynne M Valente

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan

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

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance. — Randy Alcorn

Be brave, be great! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. — Sophocles

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance. — Lisa Murkowski

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. — Hawa Abdi

God gives you everything you need. You just have to look around for it, and it will be there. — John Kramer

You can't belittle a person in one breath and then expect them to grow self-respect and self-reliance with the next. — Tim Greaton

It was a particular sort of Turner weakness: self-sabotaging self-righteousness masked as self-reliance. — Angela Flournoy

Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself. — Marty Rubin

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. — T.H. White

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again. — Gary Hopkins

Trusting yourself means you dare walk alone. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. — Louis Simpson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am only one. The best person I can possibly be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because Banshees don't think much of medals! — Henry V. O'Neil

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage. — Gary Hopkins