Self Reliance Quotes

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

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

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

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.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

You can't get old without living.

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

There is always a better way.

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

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Success is predictable.

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

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

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?

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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

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

The virtue in most request is conformity.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

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

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

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.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

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

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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