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
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
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke.… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A little prosperity and peace, or even a turn slightly for the better, can bring us feelings of self-sufficiency. We can feel… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
“The voices of self-reliance are many and deceptive. In some way, they greet you every day. Their deceptive whispers started in the… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew 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
“Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She… — Laini Taylor 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
“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