Reliance Quotes - Page 2

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Mary Parker Follett

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Augusta Gregory

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Swedish Proverb

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.

If it is to be it is up to me.

Anonymous

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

John Gay

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say "Well white people kept me back and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Clara McBride Hale

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.

Jane Rule

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara De Angelis

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

Simone de Beauvoir

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

Charles Montesquieu

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Scottish Proverb

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Margaret Mitchell

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

God has entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

William Graham Sumner

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

Some pursue happiness others create it.

Anonymous

Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

I leave before being left. I decide.

Brigitte Bardot

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjöld

I am my own heaven and hell!

J. C. F. von Schiller

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!

Valentine Blacker

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

Amy Tan

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

I help those who can help themselves.

Agatha Christie

My books are friends that never fai

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

Robert C. Peale

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

Gotthold E. Lessing

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