Best Sufficiency Sayings

95 Sufficiency quotes by 80 unique authors

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without… — Michel de Montaigne
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
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. — Euripides
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
The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for… — Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency. — Vance Havner
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. — Homer
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
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of… — A B Simpson
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
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I… — Douglas Coupland
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 do… — William Nicholson
Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency… — BrenÃ© Brown
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a… — Epicurus
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer… — Haruki Murakami

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