Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Self Reliance Quotes

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not...

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not...

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

What you are comes to you.

What you are comes to you.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to...

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

Reality is a sliding door.

Reality is a sliding door.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...