“The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves” — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“Our greatest national resource was once our self-sufficiency. We could forge our own steel, build our own cars, manufacture our own appliances,… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Because to be so simplistic is not enough. Until and unless our people have learned the rudiments of the basic foundations or… — Luis Taruc Copy Share Image
“How does our self-sufficiency ruin safety? Primarily by preventing us from experiencing our impoverishment. People who “have it together” are not hungry,… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid… — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
“This much is clear to me: insofar as I am capable of feeling such pleasures as I believe Nick felt, I am… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image