Top 97 Self Support Quotes
#1. 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.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#2. 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.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#3. An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
Eric Maisel
#4. Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
Bruce Lee
#5. 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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#6. 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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#7. I do not crave anyone that will fix me. Just someone who will hold my hand while I fix myself.
Unknown
#8. Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.
Adam-Troy Castro
#9. Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It's far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#10. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn
#11. We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.
Leo Kadanoff
#12. When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#13. Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
Karen Salmansohn
#14. You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.
Phil McGraw
#15. If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.
Diana Wynne Jones
#17. Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.
Nikki Rowe
#18. Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own ... Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.
Eric Hoffer
#19. All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#20. Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#21. Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation
Tony Dovale
#22. In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#23. Both thinking over feeling provide vital feedback to support your survival and help you flourish.
Deborah Sandella
#24. This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
Peter McWilliams
#25. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
Cordelia Fine
#26. If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.
Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.
Nikita Dudani
#27. Support for the arts
merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
Robert A. Heinlein
#28. Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom to grow unencumbered and without limitation, and complete support from the Universe to become our greatest possible self.
Sonia Choquette
#29. We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
Eric Hoffer
#30. What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams
#31. Lift up your two hands; remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too; give help to yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam Chomsky
#33. It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#34. It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.
Megan McKenna
#35. So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force".
Muhammad Asad
#36. When you can't understand the negativity, doubt, or lack of support directed at you just remember this. They are not looking at you ... they are looking in the mirror. After that the true clarity of their self-doubt will emerge.
Carl Henegan
#37. You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?
Toni Hawkins
#38. One quick sidebar on this topic - don't waste any more time trying to make your web pages work for browsers that don't support HTML5 - it's self-defeating and can, in many instances actually harm your position in SERP's.
Michalis Kotzakolios
#39. One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
Vironika Tugaleva
#40. Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.
Subhash Kak
#41. Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
Mason Cooley
#43. When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.
Carlos Wallace
#44. When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire
Deepak Chopra
#45. A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
Edward Abbey
#46. Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
Laurens Van Der Post
#47. Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one's own Soul, one doesn't need the support from the material world. 'He' will then become independent [support-free].
Dada Bhagwan
#48. [H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.
Chinua Achebe
#49. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.
Lori Cash Richards
#50. When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.
Ken Cuccinelli
#51. It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.
Randi Kreger
#52. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.
Alexandra Katehakis
#53. When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.
Raphael Zernoff
#54. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Hayao Miyazaki
#55. Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.
Robin D. Hart
#56. Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
Isadore Sharp
#57. Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#58. The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.
C. G. Jung
#59. If you truly want the universe to support you in becoming all you can be; be prepared for having any false supports removed from your life; leaving you standing as the warrior that you are.
Renae A. Sauter
#60. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.
Ernest L. Boyer
#61. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]
Cormac McCarthy
#62. Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#63. All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.
Sheila Kitzinger
#64. Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.
Dada Bhagwan
#65. I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
Dave Chappelle
#67. One who lives with one's own (Soul's) support is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). One who lives with the body complex (relative self's) support is the embodied (mortal) self (Jeevatma).
Dada Bhagwan
#68. The criminalization and demonization of black men has turned the black community against itself, unraveling community and family relationships, decimating networks of mutual support, and intensifying the shame and self-hate experienced by the current pariah caste.
Michelle Alexander
#69. Education must have two foundations
morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Nicolas Chamfort
#70. Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
Deepak Chopra
#71. When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
Frederick Lenz
#73. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.
Kerry Washington
#74. All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
John Piper
#75. Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.
Doug Casey
#76. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. We must understand that the local church isn't a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God's holy temple, a congregation of redeemed saints and priests who are consecrated to God. It is God's lighthouse in a dark world. It is the pillar and support of the truth.
Alexander Strauch
#78. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.
Eleanor Brown
#79. If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.
Kamal Ravikant
#80. You are capable of coming back to your best and highest self, but you must maintain this practice. Don't allow yourself to get distracted and forget to practice. Practice regularly, daily, with the support of your family, friends, and community - this is diligence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#81. Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
Aristotle.
#82. Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
Richard Steele
#83. Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.
Nicholas Stern
#84. I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
Richard Hatch
#85. If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
Gloria Steinem
#86. I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
Charles Stross
#87. You can do anything you want to do, if you want to do it bad enough.
Tim Carter My Dad
#88. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#90. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
Jaeda DeWalt
#91. What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor
Sunday Adelaja
#92. I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.
Sonia Sotomayor
#93. I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.
Debbie Ford
#94. Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.
Mao Zedong
#95. Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience - self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light - constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.
Sam Harris
#96. Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have so much to learn from one another, and we often let self-imposed barriers keep us from enjoying associations which could be among the greatest blessings in our lives.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
