Below are the best quotes we could find featuring ralph waldo emerson about self reliance.
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Be an opener of doors.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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