Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Single is not a status. It is a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. Just kidding, It's miserable seeing everyone else with someone.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.

Those who have been coddled often develop a form of crazy in which they tell themselves, "Someone will do things for me." Consequently, they feel entitled to success and happiness without having to earn it.

If you don't learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else's leftovers.

However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity, and finally tyranny.

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

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us.

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.