Self Reliance Quotes - Page 2

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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?

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

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

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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 virtue in most request is conformity.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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.

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 objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.