Self sufficient Quotes · Page 3

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am…

— Elizabeth Banks

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

— J. C. Chandor

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

— Aristotle

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

— Howard Hodgkin

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-…

— Donald Trump

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

— Melinda Gates

We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

— Bunker Roy

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

— Sadie Frost

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to…

— Glenn Greenwald

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students…

— Ernest L. Boyer

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

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give…

— Erik Weihenmayer

“The more self-sufficient we are, the less we need others. The less we need others, the less likely we are to form…

— Jeff Shinabarger

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

— Tom G. Palmer

Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in…

— Paul Krugman

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with…

— Hayao Miyazaki

“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be…

— Veronica Roth

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special…

— Kenneth Keniston

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who…

— Kenneth Keniston

“A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything…

— Frank Chimero

The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were…

— Kenneth Keniston

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity,…

— Gretchen Rubin

We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog…

— Jean Vanier

“Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.”

— Aristotle

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

— Bruce Lee

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

— L. Ron Hubbard

If I'm going to become a strong, independent woman and self-sufficient, I'm going to have to continue to make good decisions for…

— Porsha Williams

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

— Peter Block

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the…

— Graham Norton

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

— Kurt Schwitters

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.

— Ant Middleton

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

— Joseph Stowell

Aid helps create self-sufficient economies and our trading partners of the future.

— Penny Mordaunt

“A family will not function well as a team unless it is first composed of strong, self-sufficient individuals.”

— Anu Partanen

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his…

— W. H. Auden

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

— Elizabeth Bowen

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

— Mamata Banerjee

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than…

— Jonathan E. Steinberg