Self Reliance Quotes - Page 12

• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Army, Self

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

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• I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

  Jessica Biel

  Cute, Strength, Girl

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• When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Strength, Moving, Simplicity

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• You can't get old without living.

  Jim Brown

  Strength, Simplicity, Reliance

  "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.

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• You find your strengths and play them up.

  Kate Upton

  Strength, Play, Simplicity

  "Kate Upton Wants To Move From Cheesecake Modeling To High-fashion Catwalks" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2012.

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• One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

  Tove Jansson

  All Alone, Over It, Get Over

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Be that self which one truly is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Knowledge, Self, Individuality

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Reliance

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• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Stress, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Good Luck, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.196, China Books

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• The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Party, Government

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• The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Difficult Times, Lord

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Succeed, Admire

  "Martha Stewart wants you to make it". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Heaven, Vision

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• 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

  Hands, Liberty, Libertarian

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Religious, Storm, Tests

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• When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Integrity, War, Responsibility

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• So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Pockets, Gadgets

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.180, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that American is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Self, People

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Government, Self

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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