Dependent Quotes

• Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Lasts, Promotion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1898). “Faust: A Tragedy”

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• We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Pedigree, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.26, Coyote Canyon Press

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, May, Forget

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• God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Independent, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gentleman, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.

  Thomas Crum

  Differences, Conflict, Our Lives

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

  Steve Southerland

  Believe, Vulnerable, Greatest Gifts

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• Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Public Opinion, Christ

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• Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Heaven, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.1007, Leonardo da Vinci

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• The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Gay, Men, Play

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• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

  Francis Chan

  Stupid, Ocean, Sleep

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.21, David C Cook

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• The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Air, Water

  "David Attenborough: force of nature". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

  Mayer Amschel Rothschild

  Government, Class, Banking

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• Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

  Naoki Higashida

  Hero, Thinking, People

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• Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.19, New Society Publishers

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• Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Independent, Make Others Happy, Would Be

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• There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Mean, Light, Darkness

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• A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.

  Ron Paul

  Airports, Government, Shopping

  "Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom". Book by Ron Paul, April 19, 2011.

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• Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Beautiful, Meditation, Independence

  "Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation - A 28-Day Program". Book by Sharon Salzberg, June, 2011.

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• Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Civilization, People, Barbarians

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

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