Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Find satisfaction in yourself first before you ever start seeking it from anyone else.

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

The common cause of the massive blindness of the Chinese officials in the nineteenth century was a huge Chinese philosophical assumption that China was a great self-sufficient Middle Kingdom that did not need to engage the world. As the Chinese emperor Qianlong famously told Lord Macartney, China had everything it needed. It didn't need the rest of the world. That painful century of humiliation finally led to China opening up.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Nor did Johnson's policies or the Black Codes ensure that African Americans would not be a "burden upon society." If anything, they guaranteed the opposite. Blacks were denied access to land, banned from hunting and fishing, and forbidden to work independently using skills honed and developed while enslaved, such as blacksmithing. Under such conditions, self-sufficiency could never have been achieved.

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive

The sweetest thing in life is to be alone, as you were born, as you will die, soaking in the sun, knowing that you put the cactus in the right place, that you don't need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.

One thing time has not removed from me," she wrote to Grover, "the last toughness of youth, and that is to live alone. I am glad of that; I would be scared to death if I found I was really needing people." One

Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.

no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?

My life is my own, and the opinions of others don't interest me...

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

there is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable.

Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?

Soy mi propio campeón, mi propio bufón y mi propio arpista.