Reliance Quotes
Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
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.
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
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.
The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.
He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
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.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
