Quotes About Self-sufficiency

What I took it to mean was: women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Unlike the fairy tale princes, real men do not like having to save someone.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

For years some of us have focused our attention (and worries) on our adult children. We've not only taken on the role of director in the drama of their lives, but the roles of producer, stage manager, dresser, caterer, financier, and scriptwriter as well. We've done countless things for them that they are more than capable of doing for themselves.

Cleo didn't want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn't want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,

But there are things you tell yourself. And there are things you know. And Maddie knew that the one person she could depend on was herself. But that's okay, she thought. I'm usually enough.

Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else for your most basic needs? And to not get so damn attached to stuff that you'd rather demean yourself than live without it?

There was a time in my life when I was independently wealthy.

I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.

I'm a good dressmaker. When I was a student I made all my own clothes, and earned good money making ball gowns and wedding dresses for my friends.

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it.

There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

We have got schools that can absolutely stand on their own two feet, and I think that's what we should be doing as Conservatives.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch.