Quotes About Self-sufficiency

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Slowly you become your own man.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

No man is competent to manage another.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!