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SELF-RELIANCE: Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. (Frank Tyger, U.S. author of puns and quotes, newspaper columnist, and editorial cartoonist, 1929-2011)
SELF-RELIANCE: The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE: It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. (Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)
SELF-RELIANCE: I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. (Meryl Streep, U.S. actress, often described as the best actress of her generation, Born 1949)
SELF-RELIANCE: An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
SELF-RELIANCE: We're all in this together . . . alone. (Lily Tomlin, U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer, Born 1939)
SELF-RELIANCE: No one can really pull you up very high when you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the “People's Lawyer,” 1856-1941)
SELF-RELIANCE: We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angelis, U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)
SELF-RELIANCE: There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. (John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)
SELF-RELIANCE: It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. (Betty Friedan, U.S. writer, activist, and feminist who is credited with sparking the second wave of U.S. feminism, 1963-2006)
SELF-RELIANCE: The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. (Jules Jusserano, French author and diplomat who was the French Ambassador to the U.S. during World War 1, 1855-1932)
SELF-RELIANCE: Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. (Sydney Phillips, U.S. family physician, 1924-2015)
SELF-RELIANCE: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE: Every man paddles his own canoe. (Frederick Marryat, British Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling known as Marryat's Code. )
SELF-RELIANCE: I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for her novel, Little Women, 1832-1888)
SELF-RELIANCE: If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE: I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot, French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934)
SELF-RELIANCE: If there is no wind, row. (Latin proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE: No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
SELF-RELIANCE: Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. (Flora Robson, English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, 1902-1984)
SELF-RELIANCE: God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. (Josiah G. Holland, U.S. novelist, poet, and co-founder/editor of Scribner's Monthly, 1819-1881)
SELF-RELIANCE: If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters, U.S. comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist, 1925-2013)
SELF-RELIANCE: Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. (Clementine Paddleford, U.S. food writer, writing for several publications about regional cuisines in the U.S. 1898-1967)
SELF-RELIANCE: I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. (William E. Henley, English poet, critic and editor, 1849-1903)
SELF-RELIANCE: Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. (Frank Tyger, U.S. author of puns and quotes, newspaper columnist, and editorial cartoonist, 1929-2011)
SELF-RELIANCE: The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE: It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. (Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)
SELF-RELIANCE: I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. (Meryl Streep, U.S. actress, often described as the best actress of her generation, Born 1949)
SELF-RELIANCE: An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright, and close friend and colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1759-1805)
SELF-RELIANCE: We're all in this together . . . alone. (Lily Tomlin, U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer, Born 1939)
SELF-RELIANCE: No one can really pull you up very high when you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the “People's Lawyer,” 1856-1941)
SELF-RELIANCE: We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angelis, U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)
SELF-RELIANCE: There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. (John Gay, English poet and dramatist, 1685-1732)
SELF-RELIANCE: It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. (Betty Friedan, U.S. writer, activist, and feminist who is credited with sparking the second wave of U.S. feminism, 1963-2006)
SELF-RELIANCE: The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours. (Jules Jusserano, French author and diplomat who was the French Ambassador to the U.S. during World War 1, 1855-1932)
SELF-RELIANCE: Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. (Sydney Phillips, U.S. family physician, 1924-2015)
SELF-RELIANCE: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE: Every man paddles his own canoe. (Frederick Marryat, British Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today for a widely used system of maritime flag signaling known as Marryat's Code. )
SELF-RELIANCE: I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for her novel, Little Women, 1832-1888)
SELF-RELIANCE: If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown source)
SELF-RELIANCE: I leave before being left. I decide. (Brigitte Bardot, French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934)
SELF-RELIANCE: If there is no wind, row. (Latin proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE: No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
SELF-RELIANCE: recovery are both from within. (Epicetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55 A.D.-135 A.D.)
SELF-RELIANCE: If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. (Amy Tan, U.S. writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience, Born 1952)
SELF-RELIANCE: What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, 121 A.D.-180 A.D.)
SELF-RELIANCE: The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Robert M. Pirsig, U.S. writer and philosopher, 1928-2017)
SELF-RELIANCE: Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel, Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques, 1873-1944)
SELF-RELIANCE: Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. (H.F. Hedge, U.S. Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist, 1805-1890)
SELF-RELIANCE: What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin, U.S. journalist and author, 1913-1983)
SELF-RELIANCE: There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)
SELF-RELIANCE: Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover, Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, 1797-1868)
SELF-RELIANCE: Circumstances--what are circumstances? I make circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)
SELF-RELIANCE: Heaven and hell is right now . . . You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. (George Harrison, English musician, singer-songwriter, and music/film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, 1943-2001)
SELF-RELIANCE: 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, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)
SELF-RELIANCE: Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. (John Donne, English poet, and cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)
SELF-RELIANCE: Let me listen to me and not to them. (Gertrude Stein, U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946)
SELF-RELIANCE: Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality. (Chinese proverb)
SELF-RELIANCE: If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, journalist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913-1960)
SELF-RELIANCE: The gods help those who help themselves. (Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar and writer, 116-B.C.E.- 27 B.C.E.)