Quotes about reliance
J.E.B. Spredemann - Englisch on Purpose
God will be there for you when no one else is. He will walk with you on every mountain. He will carry you through every valley. He will never leave you or forsake you. You don't need me you need Him. I cannot be all those things for you. Only God can.
Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
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.
Kathryn Schulz - Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.
Andy Stanley -
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.
Thomas Carlyle -
My books are friends that never fai
Majid Kazmi -
Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Scandal in Bohemia
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.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein
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.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
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.
Scott Hahn - Hope for Hard Times
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar
Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through – no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it.
Anthony Liccione -
Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.
Beverly Engel - The Right to Innocence
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.
Mango Wodzak - The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.
Augusta Gregory -
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
Fanny Ellen Holtzman -
I don't follow precedent I establish it.
Frank Tyger -
Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.
Amelia Earhart -
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
Quintus Ennius -
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Roseanne Barr -
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Hazel Scott -
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
Anonymous -
The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Liv Ullmann -
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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
J. W. Jepson -
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.
William Graham Sumner -
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua -
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.
Mary Crowley -
We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.
Mrs. Hubbard Davis -
To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.
Arnold Glasow -
The best bet is to bet on yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Gaylord Perry -
Do for yourself or do without.
Harriet Lerner -
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -
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.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca -
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Meryl Streep -
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Harry Browne -
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
J. C. F. von Schiller -
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
Lily Tomlin -
We're all in this together ... alone.
Louis Brandeis -
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.
Barbara De Angelis -
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 -
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.
Elizabeth Dole -
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.
John Gay -
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Jane Fonda -
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Betty Friedan -
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Clara McBride Hale -
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.
Jules Jusserano -
The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.
Sidney J. Phil -
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
Sally Field -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Mary Parker Follett -
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
Sue Grafton -
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Swedish proverb -
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Thomas Fuller -
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Irish proverb -
You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Agnes Macphail -
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Diane Ackerman -
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Susan B. Anthony -
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony -
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.
Frederick Marryat -
Every man paddles his own canoe.
Benjamin Franklin -
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin -
If you want a thing done go if not send.
Louisa May Alcott -
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
William Shakespeare -
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
Anonymous -
If it is to be it is up to me.
Tommy Lasorda -
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
Bum Phillips -
Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
Brigitte Bardot -
I leave before being left. I decide.
Zora Neale Hurston -
No man may make another free.
Fred Corson -
The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Nellie Cashman -
When I saw something that needed doing I did it.
Bum Phillips -
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
Herodotus -
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Louis L'Amour -
My future is one I must make myself.
Charles de Gaulle -
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Latin proverb -
If there is no wind row.
William Blake -
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
Bertha von Suttner -
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.
Sir Thomas Browne -
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Sophia Loren -
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.
Epictetus -
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
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.
Amy Tan -
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
Johann von Goethe -
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Marcus Aurelius -
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
Samuel Butler -
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
R. W. Clark -
No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.
Federico Fellini -
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.
Thomas L. Masson -
There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.
Vladimir Zworykin -
It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.
Marcus Aurelius -
Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Preston Bradley -
I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Joseph Joubert -
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Macrina Wiederkehr -
God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.