Top 1200 Self-Sufficient Quotes & Sayings

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

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

Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man’s heart till man’s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

I'm a very self-sufficient person, much like a lot of people I work with.

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

In fact, the left can't survive with independently self-sufficient, self-reliant people. They aren't needed if that ever happens, or within groups of people like that. So they have to assume that people are mind-numbed robots.

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

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

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

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.

The Democrats are threatened by self-reliant people, self-sufficient people. They're threatened by you being independently self-sufficient. Sanctuary cities? You might think that these people would love to offload some of the burden on their social services. You'd be dead wrong. This is how they define their worth. This is how they define their compassion, by forcing the taxpaying, working citizens of their communities to pay for all of this. That's how they get to run around and tell people how great they are.

There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty other than to actually educate people so that they can get the jobs, so that people can be self-sufficient. And to be self-sufficient around careers - not just jobs, but careers.

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

The Model Sanctuary is not about self-indulgence - it's about reminding and allowing them to become self-sufficient human beings. I wanted to alert people to the fact that we're not the victims, but nor are we the villains. We want fair practice and positive, sustainable change, working with the fashion industry, not against it.

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

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.

We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.

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

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.