Quotes About Self-reliance

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

Fully-realized human beings—those in harmony with their Source—are complete in themselves. They don't need anything outside themselves to be made whole.

is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Ne te quaesiveris extra.

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs . . . Whoso would be a man must also be a non-conformist.

It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

En la comunidad, es fácil vivir según ideas ajenas. En la soledad, es fácil vivir según las ideas propias. Pero solo es notable el que, en la comunidad, conseva la independencia.

Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.

En ese autoengaño, su genio deserta, su musa lo abandona. Se queda sin creatividad, sin esperanzas. Confía en ti mismo.

Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.

If a person is constantly reading and absorbing the thoughts of others, their growth will be stunted. In order to fully develop, we need periods of solitude, self-inquiry, and recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The negro has saved himself and the white man very patronizingly says, I have saved you.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must be strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.