Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 995 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Without self-reliance no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never-say-dieness. Self-reliance inspires a person to do the best that is in them. Without self-reliance, the difficulties that are common to forging ahead cannot be fought and overmatched.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.
0:15.3	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes
0:22.7	published in 1918.
0:33.7	Without self-reliance,
0:36.2	no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance, no one can succeed in the largest way.
0:40.0	Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never say dyness.
0:47.8	Self-reliance inspires a person to do the best that is in them.
0:53.1	Without self-reliance, the difficulties that are common to forging ahead cannot be fought
1:00.4	and overmatched.
1:03.7	Self-reliance is a wellspring of hope and inspiration and courage.
1:10.0	It strengthens the will, the brain, the arm. It is as a strong
1:16.3	pole by which you can vault over obstacles. Lose self-reliance and you become weak, wobbly,
1:25.0	vacillating. You balk at even the shadow of a difficulty.
1:30.3	Admit the danger of defeat, and you are already half defeated.
1:36.3	Archimedes is credited with the declaration,
1:40.3	Give me a lever of sufficient length and a fulcrum to rest it upon, and I would move the world.
1:47.0	Our modern Archimedes sets about making the needed lever in fulcrum.
1:53.0	They do not wait to have something handed to them.
1:57.0	They go after it, and either find it or make it.
2:01.6	If you have no faith, no reliance in yourself, how can you expect others to place faith or reliance in you?
2:11.6	Aim high and you may hit high.
2:15.6	Aim low when you are little likely to hit high.
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