Self Reliance Quotes - Page 3

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

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 should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

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.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

I'm reverent from a distance.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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 ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.