Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Yet she decided never to marry and to remain self-sufficient.

always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

that you don't suffer because of someone else. There's never anyone but

though. Here, besides books like Langer's Grow It!, Livingston's Guide to Edible Plants and Animals, Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living and of course Seymour's Forgotten Arts and Crafts—their

In the end, everyone can do without fathers

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

Has not some sage said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all my effects with me'? I have