Showing posts with label self reliance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self reliance. Show all posts

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Post #3204

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Post #3191

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Post #2609

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
—William Ellery Channing

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Post #2112

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.
—Arabic Proverb

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Post #1937

Of all the elements of success none is more vital than self reliance,a determination to be one's own helper, and not to look to others for support. It is the secret of all individual growth and vigor, the master key that unlocks all difficulties in every profession or calling.
—William Matthews

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Post #1892

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
—Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Post #1782

Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
—John Neal

Monday, August 18, 2014

Post #1621

Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
—John Neal

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Post #1518

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge ; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
—Seneca

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Post #1265

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
—Sir John Reynolds

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Post #954

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
—Irish proverb

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Post #931

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
—Robert M. Pirsig

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Post #831

Gamblin's my nature, Ramblin's my game. Deal me out your hardest card. I'll win this God Damn game.
—Woody Guthrie

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Post #814

Faced with a crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.
—Charles de Gaulle

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Post #654

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead to sovereign power.
—from Oenone, Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friday, July 01, 2011

Post #636

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
—Mary Parker Follett

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Post #460

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
—William Shakespeare

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Post #356

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.
—John B. Gough

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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