Quotes About Self-sufficiency

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

It was no good waiting for anyone else to save me. I had to save me.

The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.

Despise The Free Lunch

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' Like I

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.

It was a lesson in self-reliance.

Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country," he wailed to John Jay.

I do not know of any firm to suggest at the moment, but why not run them ourselves?

The only thing he had bought for the house was a gold-colored filter cone for Leon's old coffee machine. He figured it was easier than always running to the store to buy the paper kind. Ten past four that morning, he filled it with coffee from a can and added water and set the machine going. Rinsed out a mug at the sink and set it on the counter, ready.

It's done by everyone minding their own business

It isn't respectable to beg

No doy nada a la gente en las manos, eso no serviría; debes tomarlo tú misma.

At three I had learned the litany of despair and knew its truth with all my being: depend on no one.

No one will rescue you.

She had always enjoyed her sense of being alone, envisioning herself as a ball that rolled through life, bumping into other lives but not stopping.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.