A. C. Benson Quotes

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

I'm not driven by being understood.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Liberation does not come from outside.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

I have no power, no independence.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.