Self Reliance Quotes - Page 3

• 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 must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Games, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Average

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suffering, Kingdoms, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Religious, Years, Done

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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Respect, Self

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.

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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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• When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Running, Religious, Men

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

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• The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Home, Welfare Programs

  "To Men of the Priesthood". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us for a time in case of need. But let us not panic nor go to extremes. Let us be prudent in every respect. And, above all, my brothers and sisters, let us move forward with faith in the Living God and His Beloved Son.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Brother, Moving

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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• I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Please Me, Wish, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.40

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• The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Spirit, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

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• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Passionate, Alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.450, Library of America

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• In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Differences, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Henry David Thoreau

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• I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Should, Egotism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Firsts, Remember, Persons

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.8

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• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adults, Sun, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Writing, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Ideas, Half

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Philosophy

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

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• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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