Reliance

(332 votes)   No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(318 votes)   Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(222 votes)   The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(149 votes)   At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(137 votes)   No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

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(125 votes)   You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(121 votes)   The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(113 votes)   Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(112 votes)   This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(109 votes)   Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The Laws of Manu

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(109 votes)   Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(103 votes)   Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.

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(94 votes)   Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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(94 votes)   You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Harold Sherman

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(92 votes)   God helps them that help themselves.

Proverbs

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