Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Everyone knows our credentials. We are Kapoors. We don't need to run after anyone's money. We have been blessed with not only money, but our talent can support us for the rest of our lives.

You don't need credit.

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.

I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

I could never take orders from anyone.

I better know how to take care of myself.

I want to feel like I can take care of myself.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

I've learnt to take care of myself.

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.

When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.