Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Do the job yourself, don't grumble, take your life personal, others can only assist. You're the main fighter in your war.

This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid. This is all their own.

You'll light your own bloody self on fire if you have to. And then you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you knew it all along. Congratulations.

the smile bent into a smirk. "Tell me, do I look like someone who can't pay my bills?

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

When you realize that self-sufficiency is an illusion, you'll be ready.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.