Quotes About Self-sufficiency

this in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.

Al enseñar a los hombres y mujeres a ser buenos, les enseño a ser fuertes, libres y autosuficientes.

Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

In American history, it's about hard work and self-reliance. It's not about collecting giveaways or being on unemployment forever. That the economy moves ahead for people who are going to work to realize the American dream, own a home, send your kids to college. I think it's the founding cornerstone of America.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

You are free to do anything you want, provided you are not a beneficiary of others effort.

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

I'm not sponsored by anybody but myself... I'm not sponsored by the PAP.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.