Quotes about Self-sufficiency
when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.
— Virginia Woolf
I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me
— Virginia Woolf
Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.
— Larry Crabb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
— Oscar Wilde
I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?
— Cormac McCarthy
You have an independent income, the only thing that never lets you down.
— DH Lawrence
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
— Harold S. Kushner
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
— Jack Kerouac
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
— JRR Tolkien
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.
— Aristotle
Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
— Gordon Hinckley
He said that when we finally did get the farm paid for we could tell everybody to go to hell. That was what he lived for, to own his farm without having to say please or thank you to a living soul.
— Wendell Berry