Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

and believe me, Mrs. Green, she'll be pegging out her own washing until the day she dies.

Isn't it true, Mr. Tagomi said, that no man should be the instrument for another's needs? He leaned forward urgently. Please give me your neutral Scandinavian opinion.

Make a noise in there and I won't help you. You're on your own.

My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy or I will not be happy. No man will supply it or deprive me of it.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

I work of my own accord. I don't want to work with restraints or worry what Jose thinks.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

The best agent for me is myself.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

I really don't align myself with anything.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I've taken care of myself all my life.

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

I don't seek approval from anyone else.

No longer dependent on the things of the world, I felt really free for the first time in my life. In the past I had been like my jailers; I had pursued the goals of capitalistic America. Now I had a higher freedom.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

I moved out of my aunt's house and got my own apartment when I was seventeen. Since I was an orphan, my aunt was getting a Social Security check for $250 every month, and finally I said, "Look, give me the money. You don't want me here anyway—I'm gone.

He will come to those who believe they need him least.

My end will come when he is able to live without me.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.