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Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Don't expect others to do your work for you.
~ William Safire
Work alone qualifies us for life.
~ Zoë Akins
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle
~ Unknown
I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.
~ Genereux Philip
Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Employment will fail you someday
~ Sunday Adelaja
Employment leaves you bare and empty
~ Sunday Adelaja
I wish to be a product not a consumer.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
~ Thomas Lennon
I learned that I can earn many things if I don't use stunts and do everything myself.
~ Gong Yoo
I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.
~ Princess Nokia
Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.
~ Austin Aries
He that falls by himself never cries.
~ Turkish proverb
The fourth and final step is that the human isn't needed much at all because the program on its own is so strong.
~ Tyler Cowen
There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.
~ Tyler Perry
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
~ Tyra Banks
You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
The hardest work you have to do is to learn to depend on your inner self because you have been taught to look always to someone else.
~ Unknown
Living in a fairly remote village one soon learns to accept that having a roof, a fire, some warm clothes and enough to eat are really the only material essentials for a comfortable life.
~ Unknown
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
~ Walt Whitman
The best way to boycott is to build your own
~ Chuck D
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
~ Shulamith Firestone