Quotes About Reliance

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

Sólo cuando no esperamos nada ni albergamos ningún sueño podemos mantener el control de nuestra vida. Los sueños a menudo implican a los demás y es imposible tener la certeza de que los demás no nos defraudarán, ni nos harán daño.

Even now Henry yearned to run to him, to curl into his arms and beg him to take her burdens on his own broad and capable shoulders. And one part of her mind was convinced that he would not turn her away, that she could trust him.

They were all dependent upon him—and he did not like her.

It is perhaps unwise to allow one person to influence one's decisions . . . People can disappoint us, you know.

faith in technology was more by practical default than informed conviction

Ah, he said. I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.

Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted—I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire.

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.

Everyone has gone postmodern. They can't even read the text in the original—they're so dependent on some pseudo-philosopher to tell them what it says.

the splintering of the media and the emergence of conservative outlets meant voters were no longer reliant on Walter Cronkite to tell them what was true;

To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal.

But Coach and I were twelve-step brothers, there's a code. I'd showed up.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

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I left. I told myself again I wasn't disappointed, I wasn't even terribly surprised. I learned a long time ago not to trust, that faith is to life what sticking your chin out is to boxing. I told myself it was good to get some further confirmation of the essential accuracy of my worldview.

The more difficult information gathering is, the more likely it is that you will rely on the decisions of others.

my case does not rise or fall depending on whether the visions were veridical or not.

She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit.

While there is risk in trusting other people, there's far greater risk in not trusting them.