Quotes About Self-sufficiency

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others. To call oneself master, to hold oneself out as a source of expertise, to have had the courage and ability and discipline that added up to a meaningful, perhaps even noteworthy life, built over decades from nothing, and then at some point in that serious life, finding oneself searching for calories.

The pain of having once been young, with muscles, still able to work. To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others.

I ain't askin' nobody for nothin'....so just leave this long haired country boy alone.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.

No one help you in our difficult times. Nowadays remember that we should start learning how to fight alone.

I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, anyone can study.

Today, South Korea is one of the world's industrial powerhouses, whike North Korea languishes in poverty. Much of this is thanks to the fact that South Korea aggressively traded with the outside world and actively absorbed foreign technologies while North Korea pursued its doctrine of self-sufficiency.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

The librarians sent books to the hospitals. They answered a thousand questions put to them by the military and civil authorities: How could Leningrad make matches? How could flint and steel lighters be manufactured? What materials were needed for candles? Was there any way of making yeast, edible wood, artificial vitamins? How do you make soap? The librarians found recipes for candles in old works of the eighteenth century.

If you could do this all the time without the system, you wouldn't need the system.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Along with a career, four children and a husband, she bakes and cooks, sews, preserves, sings, embroiders, gardens, arranges flowers, decorates cakes, and makes kayaks and pottery.

And she doesn't even ask what I want to do. When

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

She is too old to share her space with people she does not know, too set in her ways to share her space even with people she does.

After that day I decided that never again would I depend on other people. However, putting that resolution into practice was easier said than done.

Marshall Shafter...kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, A fool can put on his own clothes better than wise man can do it for him.

When parents continue to dress their children after the age of three, they are robbing them of developing a sense of responsibility, self-sufficiency, and self-confidence. They are less likely to develop the belief that they are capable. Instead they feel a sense of belonging when others do things for them.