Reliance Quotes

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

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.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

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.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

There is but one reliance.

You can't get old without living.

There is always a better way.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

Success is predictable.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.