Quotes About Self-sufficiency

If you want them to stop using you STOP giving them something to use you for.

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.

Don't build your life around one person. People leave, whether by choice or force. Build your life for yourself and invite someone to visit.

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

Stop thinking about living in the north and in isolated communities as an unfortunate accident or a punishment or a failure; stop thinking about it in southern urban terms. Start thinking about it as a purpose in and of itself, a necessary and happy purpose covering two-thirds of Canada, with its own reality.

it was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

having nothing that can be stolen, exploited

We'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof

we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I have no family to take care of.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.