Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

Stay Alive in Your Own Life

Rossmann pored over data that followed kids across four periods in their lives, ending in their mid-twenties. Those who began chores at three or four were more likely to have solid relationships with their families and friends, to be self-sufficient, and to achieve academic and early professional success.

I don't want to spend my time rescuing you from awkward situations.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.

Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was her own fortress and her own sanctuary.

One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

she did not suffer from her geographic isolation.

This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Being a loner and being a loner were two separate things- Fireproof

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.