Quotes About Self-sufficiency

It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.

I just want a guy that is secure with himself and is not intimidated by what I do and how I can provide for myself, because I don't need a man for that, nor have I ever looked for a man to just take care of me.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing, you know? My wife is very smart. She's got a doctorate degree; she's got her own career going. She doesn't need me to take care of her.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

I've always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it's a pretty damn good life.

The worst part about being so small is that I always have to rely on someone. I can't go anywhere on my own, so I'm always dependent. I can't run or walk too fast. If I was taller for a day, I'd just go off on my own independently.

Hemingway's judgment on people, that the competent guy does it on his own and the incompetents lean on each other." In

Similarly, when we as parents get in the habit of doing small things to make our children's lives easier—when we clean up after them, drive them places that they could walk to, fill out applications for our teenagers, pay teenagers' parking tickets, or regularly jump in to solve children's problems with peers, teachers, or coaches—we run the risk of making our children more fragile, entitled, and self-occupied.

I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices.

We have become food consumers, not food producers or makers. We have outsourced our cooking to corporations.

I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.

One thing was certain, she was through depending on others--others who didn't care, who just wanted to keep out of trouble.

Self-esteem is critical in seduction. (Your attitude toward yourself is read by the other person in subtle and unconscious ways.) Low self-esteem repels, confidence and self-sufficiency attract. The less you seem to need other people, the more likely others will be drawn to you.

It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.

Do you work a job that slowly kills you so you can afford health coverage to pay medical expenses? Or do you live right with the earth and make your own way, keep things simple, and take care of yourself?

He wanted to settle into a full human life, to pick a place and stay there, to learn it completely, in all its seasons, to grow his food, make his house and his tools, become part of a community of friends.

Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots! At least we're self-reliant and we can

We were on our own; and so we became fundamentally different beings.

Autosuficiencia. Y un huevo. Somos putos monos. La clave siempre ha sido el trabajo en equipo.

I would be beholden to no man, not even for a blanket.

Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.