Quotes About Self-sufficiency

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card.

Man is emphatically self-made.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

You know, I've made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It's fine. I've got a house, and I've got dogs that I love. I don't need anything else.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.