Reliance Quotes

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

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

I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.

We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.

My future is one I must make myself.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

If you don’t leave your job, your job will leave you someday

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

The gods help those who help themselves.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Do for yourself or do without.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.

If there is no wind row.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.