Self Reliance Quotes - Page 4

• Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.111

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• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.41, 谷月社

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Sacred, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Life, Freedom, Inspire

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• And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Self, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Virtue, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving, Helping, Philanthropy

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Solitude, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Half

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Breakup

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Wisdom, Humility, Men

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

  Bjork

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• 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 firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Mind

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance

  Lisa Murkowski

  Self, Absolute Freedom, Reliance

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• It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Religious, Advice, Focus

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• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Triumph

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Aversion, Conformity, Conspiracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

  Darren Shan

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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