Self Reliance Quotes - Page 14

• Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Self, Southern, Inspire

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• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Women, Self, Two

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• Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Good And Bad, Reliance

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

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Real, Believe, Self

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• At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Greatness, Self, Challenges

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• Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.37

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• We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Freedom, Government, Self

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Often Is, Self

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• Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two hands which can work and produce the food for the stomach. The hands have to be given the strength and skill; they have to learn the lesson of self-reliance. They should never be lazy or slothful. Then, there can be no deficiency in food and no problem of underfeeding.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Self, Hands

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• I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

  Neil Peart

  Determination, School, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self Esteem, Being Single, Care

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.398, 谷月社

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