Quotes about Self-sufficiency
Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.
- John Wooden
The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and
- John Wooden
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
- John Malkovich
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
- Ezra Taft Benson
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
- Marquis de Sade
Never try to help God fulfill His word. Abram went through thirteen years of silence, but in those years all of his self-sufficiency was destroyed. He grew past the point of relying on his own common sense. Those years of silence were a time of discipline, not a period of God's displeasure.
- Oswald Chambers
Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency
- Paul David Tripp
Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results
- Paul David Tripp
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Deuteronomy 8:17
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
- Proverbs 6:7
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
- Isaiah 3:7