Reliance Quotes

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

~ Aldous Huxley

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

~ Louis L'amour

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

~ Georgie Anne Geyer

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

~ Samuel Lover

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

~ Geri Weitzman

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

~ Christian Bovee

We will either find a way or make one.

~ Hannibal

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

~ W. H. Auden

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

~ George Harrison

Freedom means choosing your burden.

~ Hephzibah Menuhin

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

~ Henry Miller

You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

~ Old German Proverb

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

~ Edward Gibbon

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

~ Cathy Better

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

~ Thomas Szasz

If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.

~ Saint Augustine

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

~ Herbert Otto

They have rights who dare defend them.

~ Roger Baldwin

Make good use of bad rubbish.

~ Elizabeth Beresford

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

~ Francis Bacon

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

~ James A. Garfield

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Some leaders are born women.

~ Geraldine Ferraro

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

~ John Donne

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

~ Jacques Audiberti

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

~ Josiah Royce

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.

~ Isaac Watts

He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.

~ Friedrich Klopstock

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Let me listen to me and not to them.

~ Gertrude Stein

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

~ Charles W. Eliot