Self Reliance Quotes - Page 6

• One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Pride, Opportunity

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• It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

  Miles Franklin

  People, Sometimes, Hated

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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• The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Cheer, Pride

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• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Graduation, Destiny

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• Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Self, Hands

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

  Francis Marion

  Tree, Promise, Fruit

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Self, Consciousness

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• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

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• Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

  Ian Davis

  Self, People, Empowering

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• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Women, Exactly Is

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• Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Life, Karma

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Shadow, Catchy

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

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• Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life.  A man must look inward to find his own answers.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Keys, Self

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Beer, Firsts

  Journal (1867)

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Regret, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Infancy conforms to nobody;
  all conform to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Sacrifice, Self, Feelings

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• Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.30, Discovery House

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• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Leadership, Self, Dust

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• We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

  Robert D. Hales

  Religious, Sacrifice, Self

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• Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.

  Edwin Feulner

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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