Quotes About Self-sufficiency

loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves.

10. You have to deal with stuff on your own and that's all there is to it.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

For students coming to meditation practice with faulty ego functioning, the enlightenment ideal may mistakenly represent 'a purified state of complete and invulnerable self-sufficiency from which all badness has been expelled, the aim of all narcissistic strivings

How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

Don't ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

Berbahagialah dia yang makan dari keringatnya sendiri bersuka karena usahanya sendiri dan maju karena pengalamannya sendiri.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

You might not want to do it, but you can do it. In fact, a case could be made, if you can't do it, you don't deserve to eat pork.

according to Chanakya, being dependent on someone is most painful. Such a person can be compared to an animal. He has to act on someone elses orders. So, man should live life with strength.