SELF-RELIANCE

Related Subjects: Courage, Dependence, Freedom, Security, Self-Confidence, Self-Respect

1. Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
   Who finds himself, loses his misery.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Self-Dependence
   

2. By thine own soul's law learn to live,
   And if men thwart thee, take no heed,
   And if men hate thee, have no care;
   Sing thou thy song, and do thy deed,
   Hope thou thy hope, and pray thy prayer.—PAKENHAM BEATTY, Self-Reliance
   

3. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.—EMERSON, Self-Reliance
   

4. The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.—EMERSON
   

5. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.—FRANKLIN
   

6. The man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.—GOETHE
   

7. It matters not how strait the gate,
   How charged with punishments the scroll,
   I am the master of my fate;
   I am the captain of my soul.—W. E. HENLEY, Invictus
   

8. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.—LINTY
   

9. "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"—LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
   

10. I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.—C. F. LUMMIS
    

11. I have ever held it a maxim, never to do through another what it was possible for me to do myself.—MONTESQUIEU
    

12. If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!—NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra