Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

I'd like to see great textbooks, great opportunities for kids to really understand stock market investing, because at the end of the day, they are going to be all they have in terms of creating a life for themselves, a retirement account, and things like that.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

I make my own chocolate, I grow my own beans, and now I have something about the history of chocolate. I feel I try to go as far as I can into this profession.

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

Women alone have to be smart, strong and durable. We don't bruise easy. And we can't waste time and energy feeling sorry for ourselves. We might want to collapse, but we don't. Probably no one would pick us up!" "You,

Excellent. Listen, do you like cats?" "I don't know. Why?" "I just had a thought. You might like having one. They're very independent, answer to no one, usually self-sufficient, sometimes affectionate, more often not, but... But they're company. There's something about being owned by one that fills the lonely space with a presence. And hair. Tons of hair. I have a cat. And a robo vac.

And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.

I'm not alone, Shelby," she said patiently. I'm on my own – there's a difference...

Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

declared their independence.

The further removed we are from the land, the greater our insecurity.

It's a very New England thing, this being alone even though you don't want to be. It proves, I guess, that you're above being lonely and can take or leave friendship. So, then, I was a loner who wished not to be alone.

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The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

the belief they didn't need their