Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Living under the defeatist directions of the false self, we wrongly assume that the only way to reach real independence, real safety, is to look to someone else to take us there. It isn't in another's power to do for you what you must do for yourself. It never has been.

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

Go away...I'm alright.

as long as a man can pay 'is way, he's got enough.

Well excuse me, if I treat people like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fancy asses, and viewing them as if they were unable to stand alone.

Standing alone doesn't mean I am alone. It means I am strong enough to handle things by myself.

Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

Be your own man, even if you don't add up to much.

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

But I didn't need Prince Charming.

I think rather than being unhappy with somebody, being alone and happy is better.

Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.