Quotes About Self-sufficiency

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

Ice and I just live our own lives. I have to answer to him, and he has to answer to me, and that's it. We don't care about the outside world, and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it.

I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.

Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'One has to discover everything for oneself,' she replied. 'And get over it all alone.

I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done

We cannot continue to provide for their needs, then fault them for lacking ambition to improve their situation." They had borrowed a small one-horse

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

And father said I never wanted this. I'm sick of everyone pretending to be old Dan Beavers in his L. L. Bean moccasins, and his Dubbelwares, and his Japanese bucksaw -- all these fake frontiersmen with their chuck wagons full of Twinkies and Wonderbread and aerosol cheese spread. Get out the Duraflame log and the plastic cracker barrel, Dan, and let's talk self-sufficiency!

She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use of anything at hand; they were almost vain of their ability to go without water, food, and shelter. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That

Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves.

I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.

Robie took a deep, cleansing breath. He had never played well with others. For the last dozen years he had worked in almost total isolation. He preferred it that way. He was better alone than with a team. That's just how he was built.

She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.

Because it taught me right from the start to rely only on myself," he said

The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him

can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

I can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

Oh, nonsense,' said Ross. 'Don't owe your happiness to anyone.

Mnie Bóg, w ?yciu moim, nigdy nie byÅ' potrzebny - od najwczeÅ›niejszego dzieciÅ"stwa, ani przez pi?? minut - byÅ'em zawsze samowystarczalny. / I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient. (Dziennik 1956, XVIII Niedziela)

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.