Quotes About Sufficiency

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

I don't need to work.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.

Here's the secret," he said. "I don't want more than I have—therefore I have everything. It's the economy of enough.

We already have everything we need.

O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need- You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

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No, my friend. There is nothing for us to do. Don't you see? When He is here, we do not need to be. He is sufficient for everything!

Aku tidak mempunyai sesuatu yang banyak, tetapi juga tidak membutuhkan yang banyak.

I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. When

It's what's known as the 'why feed a fish if it's already in your net' mentality, but when a fish runs out of food, it has one of two choices: to escape or die

As Walt Whitman says, "I am sufficient as I am." It is sufficient that I live—and am probably going to live for another few decades—and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the problem becomes amazingly simple and admits of no two answers. What can be the end of human life except the enjoyment of it?

It's better to HAVE and NOT NEED than to NEED and NOT HAVE.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.