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  • For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  • If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

    Fall   Ignorance   Men  
    "The False Principle of our Education". Book by Max Stirner, p. 23, 1842.
  • Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun... It is our sacred duty to care for our families, including our extended families.

  • I'd rather die my way than live yours.

  • Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin
  • You can't get old without living.

    "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.
  • Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Don't live your life to please other people.

    Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons
  • Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

    Men   Thinking   Self  
  • Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

    Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985”, p.765, Best Books on
  • Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

    1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.
  • Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

    Love   Reality   Self  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation
  • Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

    Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books
  • I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we never would have supposed, to help all those who truly want a years supply...All we have to do is to decide, commit to it, and then keep the commitment. Miracles will take place.

  • The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

    Hands   Joy   Secret  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик
  • God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

    Faith   Courage   Work  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик
  • You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

  • It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.49, Open Road Media
  • The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America
  • There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

    Order   Self   Habit  
    First annual message, 1881.
  • I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America
  • At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

    Life   Fate   Should Have  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company
  • No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  • Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.

  • I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

    "Kristen Stewart on Robert Pattinson Relationship: 'Keep Them Guessing'" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 07, 2012.
  • When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

    Men   Names   Feet  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation
  • Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

    Daniel De Leon (1915). “Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi”
  • Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

    Self   Pressure   Moments  
    "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.
  • The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

    Heart   Men   Self  
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