Reliance Quotes - Page 3

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.

Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or merely role models.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.

When I saw something that needed doing I did it.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

When you blame others you give up your power to change.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult. If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

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

God creates the animals man creates himself.

We're all in this together ... alone.

They have rights who dare defend them.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

If you want a thing done go if not send.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice my responsibility win or lose only I hold the key to my destiny.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.