Rafael Cruz Quotes

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness.

We must cultivate our own garden.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.