Quotes about Self-reliance

I am not one who needs to be patted on the back every single day and told I am brilliant. Some players need that, I don't.

Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiritual values of humility, long suffering, endurance, and obedience are to be affirmed alongside self-reliance, freedom, proclamation, mission, and authority.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.