Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that…

“I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses!…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral…

— Aristotle

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn,…

— Emma Goldman

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

— Bob Dylan

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

— David Platt

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster…

— Alison Lurie

A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The flat is small, with only a sliver of ocean view from the bedroom window, but I pay for it myself—not from the family…

— Emma Chase

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And…

— Kenneth Keniston

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except…

— Carl Rogers

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you…

— William Nicholson

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 likely than…

— David Rolf

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

— Quentin Crisp