Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Don't trust the natives, Olivia has told me, but I was already a step ahead of her. I didn't trust anyone. Not for directions, not for rides, and not for advice either. Sure it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened – good bad or anywhere in between – it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

I never expected anything from anyone. Which was not the same thing as not wanting, ever, to be surprised.

I'm neither a lady nor am I fair, And can go home without your care. (She frees herself and exits.)

I'm going to take care of this little matter myself, since you obviously won't.

Do for yourself, for no one else will.

Don't you feel cut off?" I asked. "Cut off from what?" she replied. "No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness.

But it takes nothing away from self-sufficiency to be able to work with like-minded souls and, as we have all learned, a community is strengthened when its people deal with hardship together.

Good ideas do not need to be shouted. They can take care of themselves.

Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

Expecting from others is such a sword that only targets your life, not others.

The qualified and visionary figures and writers depend not on media and encyclopedias; conversely, those both, need them, to run and fill its programmes and projects.