Quotes About Self-sufficiency

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Nobody gives you a chance... So you just have to stand on your own two feet and take them.

The starting point of maturity is the realization that no one is coming to the rescue. Everything you are and everything you will be is entirely up to YOU.

Being strong and independent will get you credited in life.

After a while you learn that you don't need anyone else to survive, no one is going to always be there no matter what they promise you, you just gotta accept it.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.

Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. — Kathleen Tierney Andrews, author

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.