Quotes About Self-sufficiency

My main concern about coming back is being able to financially support it on my own. I don't want to depend on any record company to do it for me. But I have a fan base, people still streaming my music.

Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

I like being able to own things, to not have to depend on music to support myself. Music hadn't supported me since 2000. I mean, it really hasn't. I just do it because I love doing it.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don't have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.

When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

As for asking favors or handouts, no.' But you'll take them from a stranger.' He looked me straight in the eye. 'The stranger can keep going and pretend not to hear.

Wir sind anderen ja auch nur zumutbar, wenn wir auch allein mit uns selbst zurechtkommen.

the servantless American cook who enjoyed producing something wonderful to eat—would feel the same way.

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.

The world passed through Mecca, but did not stay long enough to interfere. Arabs were able to develop their own ideology and could interpret the knowledge and expertise of their more sophisticated neighbors as they chose. They were not pressured to convert to an alien religion or conform to official orthodoxy. The closed circle of both the trade cycle and the hajj rituals symbolized their proud self-sufficiency, which, as the years passed, would become a mark of their urban culture.

She hated the thought of needing people almost as much as she hated having to reach out to them.

The handful of swamps left in America were probably some of the few remaining places on the continent where a man could live wholly sustained by the land, whether it was for food, shelter, medicine, or some of the cleanest drinking water on earth. Jeffrey wondered how long it would be before they were all completely destroyed.

As much as I want to make it easier for you, I know that it'll never take unless you do it all on your own.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

Some people were complete in themselves, as if born from the earth or the ocean, like some of the gods. Which was not a compliment. The gods were ruthlessly indifferent to humanity.

Free men set themselves free.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.