Self Reliant Quotes - Page 2

• Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Father, Government

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• I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

  John Gierach

  Men, Phones, Self

  John Gierach (2008). “Fool's Paradise”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Adversity, Self, Challenges

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• I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Women, Being Alone

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• I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self, Dry Up, People

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally strong, determined, stronwilled, self-reliant, and independent. I also keep most of my pain, anger and feelings inside. I refuse to be vulnerable to anyone, especially my husband. The only people who see that more emotional or softer side are my children. That too because of my mother.

  Hope Edelman

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Government, Self

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• A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Optimistic, Self, Creative

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• Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong Women, Self, Practice

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• Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

  Scott D. Cook

  Retirement, Self, People

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• Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant, and faithful in living gospel principles, or they may learn something else. Learning the gospel in the homes of Church members should be centered on the scriptures and on the words of the latter-day prophets. The Lord has commanded parents to teach their children.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Children, Home, Self

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• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  Jerry Brown

  Self, Community, Political

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• Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Self, People, Spirituality

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• Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

  George W. Casey, Jr.

  Self, Occupation, Force

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• The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

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• People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

  Scott D. Cook

  Government, Pension Plans, Self

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• I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Growing Up, Learning

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• Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Independent, Reality

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• In fact, the left can't survive with independently self-sufficient, self-reliant people. They aren't needed if that ever happens, or within groups of people like that. So they have to assume that people are mind-numbed robots.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, People, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

  Michael Harner

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

  Helen Slater

  Self, Creative, Acting

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• The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

  David Livingstone

  Country, Heart, Animal

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

  Quincy Jones

  Strong, Self, Answers

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• Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self, Requirements

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