Self-Sufficiency (Self-Reliance)
Self-Reliance: providing for one's own needs and being temporally prepared, a principle of provident living.
211 documents · 7 libraries · 1971–2026
Emphasis over time
Peak: 21 documents in 2021
Documents tagged with this topic each year. Libraries cover different years (Liahona starts in 2021), so the rate compares eras more fairly than the count.
Where it lives
- General Conference140 documents
- Liahona Articles56 documents
- BYU Speeches9 documents
- Gospel Topics and Questions3 documents
- BYU Studies1 document
- Religious Educator1 document
- Scripture Central1 document
Latest
Liahona Articles
Lifting Lives: 25 Years of the Perpetual Education Fund (opens in a new tab)
Shaun Stahle · Jul 2026
Liahona Articles
My Struggles with Spanish Taught Me How to Rely on the Lord (opens in a new tab)
Logan Shields · Apr 2026
Liahona Articles
Building a Brighter Future in Mombasa (opens in a new tab)
Lisa Ford · Mar 2026
BYU Studies
Building an Innovative "Latter-day Saints without Borders" Organization (opens in a new tab)
Warner Woodworth · 2023
General Conference
Teaching Self-Reliance to Children and Youth (opens in a new tab)
Hugo E. Martinez · Apr 2022
General Conference
There Was Bread (opens in a new tab)
W. Christopher Waddell · Oct 2020
Scripture Central
How Can Honest Labor and Self-Reliance Bring Lasting Happiness? (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Aug 2019
General Conference
Prepared to Obtain Every Needful Thing (opens in a new tab)
David A. Bednar · Apr 2019
BYU Speeches
“Hold the Banner High” (opens in a new tab)
Dallin H. Oaks · Apr 2012
BYU Speeches
Receiving (opens in a new tab)
Kent P. Jackson · Jun 2011
Earliest
General Conference
Our Responsibility: To Save the World (opens in a new tab)
Delbert L. Stapley · Oct 1971
Most frequent voices
- Spencer W. Kimball16 documents
- Marion G. Romney14 documents
- Gordon B. Hinckley10 documents
- Victor L. Brown10 documents
- L. Tom Perry7 documents
- Barbara B. Smith6 documents
- Boyd K. Packer5 documents
- Robert D. Hales5 documents
- Ezra Taft Benson4 documents
- Dallin H. Oaks3 documents
- H. Burke Peterson3 documents
- H. David Burton3 documents
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