Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

Only sheep need a Shepard.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

We don't want to depend on things that might let us down.

I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

Don't thank anyone for what you should already have.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

Many people who have the Dependence lifetrap also have the Abandonment lifetrap. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a person having the Dependence lifetrap and not having the Abandonment lifetrap. People who have the Dependence lifetrap believe that they cannot survive alone. They need a strong figure to guide and direct them through the activities of day-to-day life. They need help. Abby is an example of a person who has both lifetraps.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.