Echoes

“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”

·1897

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

·1874·Basel

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

·1841

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Appius Claudius Caecus

·312 BCE

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Rumi

·1260

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Adam Smith

·1759

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

·1841·Concord

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Siddhartha Gautama

·-400 AD

Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge.

Epictetus

·108 AD·Nicopolis

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epicurus

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Epicurus

·-280 AD

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Socrates

·-399 AD

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Benjamin Graham

·1973

Do not let anyone else run your business.

Walt Whitman

·1855

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

·1862·White House

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Epictetus

·108 AD·Nicopolis

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Siddhartha Gautama

·500 BC

No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves is pain endured, By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure.

Siddhartha Gautama

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Rumi

·1260

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.