Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plane was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost your engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.

If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plan was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost an engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.

Stormy used to have a saying. Leave with the one you came with, unless he's a drunk--then find your own way home.

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

The capitalists don't want anyone living off their economic grid.

In many ways we modern day vandwellers are just like the Mountain Men of old: We need to be alone and on the move, but we equally need to occasionally gather together and make connections with like-minded people who understand us.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.

In the stage of full maturity he has freed himself from the person of mother and of father as protecting and commanding powers; he has established the motherly and fatherly principles in himself. He has become his own father and mother; he is father and mother.

He had to have someone else give him advice. That's the trouble with him. He's never learned to stand on his own two feet and take things as they come.

I'm perfectly capable of living my own life. If I get into something, I want to get out of it through my own efforts. If I can't, I want to stay there. I don't want to have Hal Anders rushing into the city to lift me up out of the gutter, brush the mud off my clothes, smile sweetly down at me, and say, 'Won't you come home now, Mae, marry me, settle down, and live happily ever after?

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

looked at the tires carefully, looking for cuts or stone bruises. Everything seemed in good condition. It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

I was always my own teacher.