Self sufficient Quotes

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

— Angie Harmon

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

— John Galsworthy

“It can’t be done for you; it must be done by you.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

I'm un-self-sufficient. I can't look after myself. I really can't.

— Gareth Thomas

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

— John Wyndham

I'd created a brand with my friends that was self-sufficient.

— Chappell Roan

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

— Aristotle

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

— Sergei Ivanov

Being self-sufficient is extremely important in a marriage, and therefore you must continue working so that you are not dependant on your…

— Mazher

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient…

— Erin O'Connor

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

— Walter Lippmann

“In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.”

— Eric Robert Morse

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

— Bruce Lee

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

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

— Aristotle

“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'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate…

— Bjork

My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it…

— George Sarton

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

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

“Over the past seventy-five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with…

— Suzanne Collins

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we…

— Derrick Bell

Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each…

— Dalai Lama

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.…

— Scott Anderson

I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I…

— Renee Zellweger

In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the…

— Erich Heller

We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Kenneth Keniston

“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

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me…

— Scott Anderson

“The Great Firewall (The Sonnet) 99% of the world's human rights violations are manufactured by the west, either directly or retrospectively. No…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Where was Bewcastle? But then he was there, standing on the terrace some distance away, and such was the power of his…

— Mary Balogh

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other…

— Abraham Lincoln

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

— Bill Gates

“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

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

— John McCain

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater