Self Support Quotes

• The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Freedom   Self   Support  

  399

• I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

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  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Fall   Men   Self  

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

  1448

• Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

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  Bruce Lee

  Self   Support   Environmental  

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• Self-government means self support.

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  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean   Government   Self  

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

  1883

• Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

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  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self   Class   Support  

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• I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.

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  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Self   Order   Support  

  2081

• The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

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  Calvin Coolidge

  Character   Mean   Government  

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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