Self Reliance Quotes

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Karma, Peace

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

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Self, States, Reliance

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Have good trust in yourself,
  not in the One that you think you should be,
  but in the One that you are.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Trust, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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

  William Matthews

  Gratitude, Blessing, Self

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• God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

  Aeschylus

  Love, God, Helping Others

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Self, Punishment

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.32, Penguin

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• The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Giving, Self Motivation

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014

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• Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Lying, Inspiration, Heart

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• Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Challenges, Each Day

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Break, Should, Stills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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 man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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

  Harry Browne

  Responsibility, Individual, Accepting

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• Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

  John Henrik Clarke

  Self, Students, Form

  John Henrik Clarke (1994). “Who betrayed the African world revolution? and other speeches”, Third World Pr

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Care

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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• Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Self, Want

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• My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.120, Penguin

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Good Man, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

  Marion G. Romney

  Religious, Preparedness, Produce

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• He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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