Quotes about Self-sufficiency
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 self-sufficiency.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
— Billy Graham
Character is that which can do without success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must take responsibility for ourselves, and stop expecting others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves... or trusting God to do for us.
— Joyce Meyer
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
— Walt Whitman
In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.
— Walter Brueggemann
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
— Cicero
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
— Walt Whitman