69 Quotes About Self-sufficiency

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

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

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . .

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

Before we can be grafted into Him, we must be stripped of our self-sufficiency and ego.

What shall I do to be forever know,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright; Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright;Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

You can’t get hurt when you love someone from the other side of an estuary.

I admire the fog, how it fades into itself.