#reliance

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#weakness

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#be-yourself #integrity #self-reliance #self-respect #respect

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#clinton #cool #define #himself #many

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#coach #greatest #greatest asset #him #his

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inform #liberty #mass #only #our

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#due #head #heavy #industries #makes

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#courage