“What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don’t much like the word empowerment, but self-reliance is the foundation of SEWA’s approach,.”

—  Ela Bhatt

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don’t much like the word e…" by Ela Bhatt?
Ela Bhatt photo
Ela Bhatt 23
founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (… 1933

Related quotes

Alexander Suvorov photo

“Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.”

Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) Russian military commander

Quoted in Ossipov, "Suvorov," 1945.

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

The Fugitive Slave Law http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=254, a lecture in New York City (7 March 1854), The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance

Lê Duẩn photo

“Our party’s experiences and our revolutionary realities have demonstrated that whenever we firmly maintain a spirit of independence and self-reliance we are able to be creative in our development of policies and directions, and we achieve success.”

Lê Duẩn (1907–1986) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Speech at 12th Plenum of the Party Central Committee (1 December 1965)

Carl von Clausewitz photo

“…self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

On War (1832), Book 1

Ronald Reagan photo

“A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Official Announcement http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/intent.asp of being a candidate for U.S. President (13 November 1979)
1970s

Gerald Ford photo

“We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government — a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.”

Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)

1970s, State of the Union Address (1975)

Margaret Thatcher photo

“I place a profound belief—indeed a fervent faith—in the virtues of self reliance and personal independence.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

On these is founded the whole case for the free society, for the assertion that human progress is best achieved by offering the freest possible scope for the development of individual talents, qualified only by a respect for the qualities and the freedom of others...For many years there has been a subtle erosion of the essential virtues of the free society. Self-reliance has been sneered at as if it were an absurd suburban pretention. Thrift has been denigrated as if it were greed. The desire of parents to choose and to struggle for what they themselves regarded as the best possible education for their children has been scorned.
Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102655
Leader of the Opposition

Mukesh Ambani photo

“Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of self-reliance can be attained by making use of Internet and technology.”

Mukesh Ambani (1957) Indian business magnate

In "5 things you may not know about Mukesh Ambani".

H.L. Mencken photo

“Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without. The free man is one who has won a small and precarious territory from the great mob of his inferiors, and is prepared and ready to defend it and make it support him. All around him are enemies, and where he stands there is no friend. He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight. He has made of himself a sort of god in his little world, and he must face the responsibilities of a god, and the dreadful loneliness.

Related topics