Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

that a single independent workman has stock sufficient both to purchase the materials of his work, and to maintain himself till it be completed. He is both master and workman, and enjoys the whole produce of his own labour, or the whole value which it adds to the materials upon which it is bestowed. It includes what are usually two distinct r

Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.

I think it's important to be able to make something, whether it's shoes or sausage. Food, clothing, and shelter are the basic needs of all people. If you master a trade that serves one of those needs, you will work for a lifetime.

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

In this world, you shouldn't rely on help from anybody. In the end, a man stands alone.

Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can't live without it and because not many people produce all of their own. And if its uncommon for a modern person to be food self-reliant, it is almost unheard of for a community to supply all of its own food.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Depend on no one else to give you what you want

If you can stand on your own, it's better that you walk back rather than making someone from the fleet take you." Elliot rose, then swallowed the bile she tasted in her throat. "I have stood on my own for many years." He didn't look away this time, and his eyes were like a stranger's. "You're not the only one.

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I have come to dislike anything that demands constant attention, whether it is dogs, dishwashers, or finally men. I like things that are independent, and that need you only because they want you, not because they'll have a breakdown without you.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

No one can be free unless he is independent.