Top 45 Self-Sufficient Quotes

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

Over the years, with hunting, I think what’s become my favorite part of hunting is how self-sufficient I’m becoming.

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.

I’ve tried to be more self-sufficient as I’ve gotten older. I’d like to not worry about whether they’re going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn’t even published in his lifetime.

We are a family that lives probably 90 percent on wild game. We’re certainly working our way toward 100 percent self-sufficient. Looking to raise chickens for eggs, things of that nature, start a garden. We enjoy the simple life.

I’m calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.

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

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can’t be self-sufficient if you’re relying on someone else.

People say, ‘I’m for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.’ Okay, that’s great, you’re for job training – I like job training – but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

I haven’t lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family’s home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in.

I dunno whether it was to do with my parents – we were working-class – but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It’s just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

Aid helps create self-sufficient economies and our trading partners of the future.

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

I wanted a challenge, wanted to be self-sufficient, so I thought, ‘Go and join the army,’ at a young age, and I just happened to be good at what I done and went up the ladder and went up to the top.

I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.

I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It’s awesome. I love it!

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

One thing I’d tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you’ll be.

LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

I think ‘astroturfing’ goes against the conservative creed because it violates the desire we share to be self-sufficient, and this is understandable, something with which I agree.

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

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.

I’ve always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

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

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.

Working in local news makes you very self-sufficient, which is a good thing because you know how all the different jobs work. I’ve worked many of those jobs in the newsroom, from my first job answering the phones and working the prompter, to producing, to being a reporter who does all of those things.

We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we’re all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

I’m a farmer now, and it’s fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There’s something about earning your dinner that’s cool.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

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

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America’s children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I’m just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were that grew up there versus, you know, my suburban upbringing. They have this innate resilience and toughness to them, and they’re incredibly self-sufficient, usually from a pretty young age.

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I’ve been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn’t actually put into practice.

I’m self-sufficient, but it’s brilliant to have people in your life that you love, who love you and are important to you.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I’m basically self-sufficient.

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.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I’m a very self-sufficient person, much like a lot of people I work with.