Reliance Quotations | Page 2

He has said for a long time that it's a national security issue, our reliance on foreign oil, ... We haven't built a new refinery in this country in two decades. I think what's happening here is things are coming home to roost.

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

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 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.

You can't get old without living.

...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.

There is but one reliance.

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.

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.

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.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

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

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

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

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

There is always a better way.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

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

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

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

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.