Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you're on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, you're not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work.

It may sound funny to others, but there is a sense of freedom when I am able to live on my own, and as per my own set standards.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

I don't think my husband's work depends on what I say and what I do. My husband stands on his own two feet.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.