Self Sufficiency Quotes

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

All things are already complete in oneself.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

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

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

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

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

All things are complete within ourselves.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.