Top 1200 Self-Sufficient Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

As long as global financial conditions normalize in an orderly fashion, EMEs should have sufficient time to adjust.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

There are not sufficient regulatory frameworks to handle the amount of power that companies like Facebook have, particularly in the United States.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.