Self-Reliance Quotes

“A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence

“Your goodness must have some edge to it-else it is none.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: Building Inner Strength That Transcends External Influence