Quotes About Self-sufficiency

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston...

He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn't feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.

But whatever we create on our typewriters, whenever we turn to them, we're choosing something that violates the digital Paradigm—something durable, intimate, focused, and self-sufficient.

often the rich, the religious, and the self-sufficient know nothing about self-surrender. Jesus

In all my life— though surrounded by many people— I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. I made no demands whatever upon others.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make that happen yourself.

God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. In fact, he is drawn to people who are weak and admit it.

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

Here is something I have learned: you should never expect help from someone who perpetually has their hair in curlers.

You got to rescue yourself.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Laura read a lot. She lived alone in a tiny bedsit and her television was so small and snowy she didnt watch it much. But she read all the time: at bedtime, while she ate, while she cooked, while she dressed and while she brushed her teeth. She would have read in the shower if she could have worked out a method that wouldnt completely ruin the book. In the same way she could read anywhere, she could read anything, and if it was good, enjoy it.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime."? It's the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

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