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We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance.
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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.
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.
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.
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.
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
Britain's withdrawal from the E.U., like Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, is based on a false belief in self-reliance.
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
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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.
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.
The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
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?
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
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.
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?
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
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.
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.
In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.