Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.""You call that freedom?""To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes.

I'd rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.

Needing nothing attracts everything.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Everything you need you already have.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.

When you don't find a way... don't wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be your own angel.

Don't depend on anyone as your own shadow leaves you in darkness.