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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• 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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  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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• 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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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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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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• 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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• 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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• If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.

  Bernard Levin

  Government, Self, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Heart, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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

  Brigham Young

  Religious, Gold, Wheat

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.250

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