Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Maybe it's that women can get along without men a damn sight better than men can get along without women. And the fact that they know it. That alone gives them a big edge. In endurance, in whatever you want to call it. They know they'll win out in the end.

Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts.

Given time to attend to their own affairs in exchange for subsisting themselves, slaves gardened, tended to barnyard animals, and hunted and fished on their own. Occasionally, they manufactured small items and sold them to their owners, neighbors, or other slaves." Money was not the issue. The correlation to examine was between work and power.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for "All that is mine I carry with me.

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year.

I don't like begging money from producers.

La creación le había dado no solo una densidad insólita, sino también la capacidad de no esperar nada de nadie.

In reality, he ventured, the freedom and equality of savages is not a sign of their superiority; it's a sign of inferiority, since it is only possible in a society where each household is largely self-sufficient and, therefore, where everyone is equally poor.

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

Self-sufficiency is the core principle of conservatism. At least my conservatism." "Survival of the fittest? And yet your people want creationism taught in the schools.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.