Self Sufficient Quotes

• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self, Grace, Unbroken

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Positive Thinking, Self

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• Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Lonely, Nature, Adventure

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

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Powerful, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.337, Tuttle Publishing

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• I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2014). “The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner Lands”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Self, Long

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• I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Self, Survival, Groups

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

  Lisa Bonet

  Congratulations, Self, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

  Jonathan E. Steinberg

  Self, Needs, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.456, Library of America

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

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Self, Enjoy, Calculating

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

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Self, Connected

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: a retrospective exhibition”

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• You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Self, People

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Teamwork, Self, Want

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• Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Our Generation, Self

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• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Self, House

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

  John Wyndham

  Nice, Self, Sufficient

  John Wyndham (1953). “Out of the Deeps”

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• The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Kids, Keys, Self

  Source: www.afb.org

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• As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Good Life, Self, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Being Alone

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• 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.

  Jessica Zafra

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

  Derrick Bell

  Self, Mentor, May

  "Ethical Ambition".

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