Reliance Quotes

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

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

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.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

I am my own heaven and hell!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

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.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

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

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.

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

I help those who can help themselves.

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

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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