Quotes About Self-sufficiency

More kids should churn butter. That's how it was in the old days.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

Honestly, I could care less about other people's opinions about me.

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore.... What? I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. Nothing, she said, getting to her feet. Just an old preHegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes-even 1400 years ago.

If someone comes I go out to meet him but not for his sake

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

we baked all our own bread;

The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors—one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.