Top 335 Rely Quotes

Unions have been under attack for quite some time, and I think a lot of the jobs that we need to create in this country need to be union jobs. People want to be able to get a job that they can rely on to feed their family and pay their bills.

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

One thing I’d tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you’ll be.

I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

I never lose that terror of ‘this is my last job, I’ll never work again.’ You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you’ve built.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation – to take care of the people who rely on me.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying… There is always something you can do… Create something, a play reading… Anything. But don’t rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

There are just certain nuances of the game that cannot be defined by stats and that’s why you can’t rely on them. That’s why Popeye Jones was Charles Barkley’s biggest headache, not Kevin McHale. That’s why Big Country Reeves is the guy who ate Shaquille O’Neal alive.

I’m a basketball player – I rely on instincts and IQ.

A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely on government assistance. It is that simple.

I’ve always been fast, it’s God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I’m learning more and more positionally so I don’t have to rely on my pace so much.

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn’t that what made great race drivers in the end?

I know we can find a bipartisan response to pressing challenges – like repairing, modernizing and adding to the infrastructure on which we all rely. I know it because I’ve seen it happen in my own state of Minnesota.

In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, ‘What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an ’80s synth line or something from this record?’

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

We live in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn’t encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

People say, ‘Where do you get your strength from?’ Well, where does an ape get his strength from? They are 20 times stronger than humans, and they don’t rely on a meat-based diet. They eat plants all day long. It’s a myth that you need meat for strength.

To release a single, a musician no longer needs to rely on a big label or production house, which are usually inaccessible.

One of the reasons I know how to handle my business is because I know can’t rely on rap.

I’m certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

What I’m trying to do as an Australian is to say to people, ‘You’ve got to go back out to Australia,’ because there are rural communities that really rely upon tourism to continue to go.

It’s unacceptable for any past or present service member to lose access or go through increased hurdles to get the medical services they rely on.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

You can’t really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It’s absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.

I’ve got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

I started in theatre, moved into film and television, and started doing voice work, which is funny because after a long time in film and television, you forget how much you rely on just a simple look on your face.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I think of comedy as my man: it’s the one thing I can always rely on that will keep me safe, keep me fed, put a roof over my head.

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to rely on our history of victimization as our primary source of power to wield within society.

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

Of course, when people work together, there can be tension and disagreement. But policing informal behavior makes it hard for people to speak freely for fear they will say the wrong thing. Even self-aware individuals can doubt their judgement and start to rely on the diversity trainer to judge if something is offensive.

What is Oracle? It’s people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

I really feel like social media – it’s like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it’s this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it’s like you don’t know how to soothe yourself, and I think it’s very pernicious.

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don’t have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It’s the hardest thing.

A player cannot rely only on his name to make a difference but also has to work hard and make things happen on the pitch.

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

I need to rely on the director’s confidence and what he sees in me.

Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on ‘call centers’ to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

I can’t rely on my money to be happy.

Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

Defending against military-strength malware is a real challenge for the computer security industry. Furthermore, the security industry is not global. It is highly focused in just a handful of countries. The rest of the countries rely on foreign security labs to provide their everyday digital security for them.

I don’t have to rely on my athletic abilities to get by. I actually understand the game. I know the game of football. I know how to read DBs, I know how to read defenses – little stuff like that, that I didn’t have in 2011.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

I don’t bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

I don’t just rely on my right hand when I’m in the ring. That’s the least thing I think about. I think about the preparation I’ve trained for, and I try to execute. And guys can’t stand up to the power. I’ve been blessed with that, and it’s something that can’t be taught.

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.

My mother has always been truthful and honest about my work. I rely on her opinion as it will be unbiased.