#reliance

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #reliance




Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.


Sarah Dessen


#self-reliance #solitude #independence

We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak.


Pandora Poikilos


#comfort-zone #independence #self-help #self-reliance #independence

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


Thomas Stephen Szasz


#independence #self-reliance #independence

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.


Janis Joplin


#self-actualization #self-awareness #self-reliance #awareness

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.


Abraham Lincoln


#self-reliance #self-help

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.


Morihei Ueshiba


#get #nowhere #progress #reliance #secret

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.


Tom Vilsack


#continued #course #fuel #gasoline #gasoline prices

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.


Peter Welch


#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.


Lao Tzu


#be-yourself #integrity #self-reliance #self-respect #respect

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.


Maya Angelou


#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos