People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
Will Rogers
This is the source.
What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
Denis Waitley
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.
Francis Johnson
We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
Calvin Coolidge
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic open the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion, and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books, idolatries and customs out of the window, we pity him no more but thank and revere him;—and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor and make his name dear to all history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance. Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has if he see that it is accidental,—came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him and merely lies there because no revolution or no robber takes it away. But that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire, and what the man acquires is living property, which does not wait the beck of rulers, or mobs, or revolutions, or fire, or storm, or bankruptcies, but perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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