Self Sufficiency Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return… — Unknown Author
Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and… — Seth Godin
Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions… — Mick LaSalle
Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good. — Aristotle
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they… — May Sarton
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, and… — Emma Goldman
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can… — Anwar Sadat
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 in… — Carl Rogers
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world… — Brooks Atkinson
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty,… — Abraham Maslow
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human… — David Steindl-Rast
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 self.… — Norman Vincent Peale
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a… — Robert D. Richardson
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this… — Quentin Crisp
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. — Christopher Hitchens
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping… — Sam Levenson
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and… — Brennan Manning
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne

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