Sufficiency Quotes
95 quotes by 81 authors
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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But…
— Jeff Sessions
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The…
— Walter Prescott Webb
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
— Epicurus
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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 itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about…
— Anita Roddick
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply…
— William C. Menninger
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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human…
— Meher Baba
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"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole…
— Saint Augustine
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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To…
— William Shakespeare
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.
— John Banville
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Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and…
— Harville Hendrix
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Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.
— Wayne Muller
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In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your…
— Mother Teresa
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How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much…
— Pope Benedict XVI
Who Wrote These Sufficiency Quotes
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