Quotes About Self-sufficiency

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

You can only depend on one person and that is you.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish.

Do not expect anything from any one.

do for yourself, for no one else will

If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing.

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.

People say i need a Doctor!I say i am a Doctor!!

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

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.

You can give people a fish; you can teach them how to fish; or you can create the conditions where people would teach themselves to fish.

Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.

Epictetus therefore advises us not to seek social status, since if we make it our goal to please others, we will no longer be free to please ourselves. We will, he says, have enslaved ourselves.