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Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett

The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face. — Anonymous

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case. — Graham Norton

Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. — Hanif Kureishi

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands. — Eric Robert Morse

Science is a self-sufficient activity. — Jonathan Miller

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

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient. — Bryce Dallas Howard

You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient. — John Ortberg

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

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. — Larry Wall

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up. — Abraham Lincoln

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being. — Frederick Winslow Taylor

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient. — Jean Edward Smith

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence. — W. H. Auden

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. — Jerry Brown

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed. — John Piper

I like women who are self-sufficient. — Ty Pennington

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient. — Sergei Ivanov

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. — Joseph Stowell

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. — Elizabeth Bowen

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. — Carlos Castaneda

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

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition. — Erin O'Connor

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. — J. C. Chandor

Art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose — Walter Pater

As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by. — Tom Perrotta

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. — Imran Khan

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. — Aristotle.

A retreat will teach you again and again that you are neither indispensable nor self-sufficient. — Karen Lord

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. — Billy Graham

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. — Ayn Rand

people to become self-sufficient, — Dan Hudson

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie. — Kurt Vonnegut

THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT. — Thomas J. Stanley

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone. — Melissa Sue Anderson

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

Men have never been individually self-sufficient. — Reinhold Niebuhr

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. — Bruce Lee

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration. — Jeff Cooper

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble — Toni Sorenson

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient. — David Batstone

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient. — Sadie Frost

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives. — Frederick Lenz

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

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. — Peter Block

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

Idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and — John Green

Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient. — Lois P Frankel

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient. — Angie Harmon

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am. — Laurene Powell Jobs

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim. — Aristotle.

We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology. — Narendra Modi

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. — John Wyndham

I thought you'd be entirely self-sufficient.""Oh I am," I shoot back. "You should see my vibrator collection. — Karina Halle

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life. — Leonard Ravenhill

We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient. — Bunker Roy

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

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

A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing. — Anonymous

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient. — Paul LePage

You 're too sufficient by yourself ... too inside yourself — Clifford Odets

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

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business. — Louis C.K.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones. — Melinda Gates

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away. — Stella Vine