Quotes About Self-sufficiency

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

It is certain that a man who has no need of anyone has many friends: in my own experience I have found this to be very true.

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~

Gregory says (Moral. xxxii, 7): "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I don't need friends.

All I've ever needed is myself.

I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.

Needless to say, I don't want a woman working for me who's waiting for me to shoot myself in the foot.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.