Quotes About Self-sufficiency

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Vegetables you've grown in your own garden just taste better. Meals that you've cooked yourself just taste better. And yes, animals that you've killed yourself just taste better.

not wanting contact with others" or "preferring to play alone." I can't speak for other kids, but I'd like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

We don't want to have to come and rescue you.

Breaking the sabbath renounced the whole covenant relationship with God. To profane the Sabbath by performing even the slightest physical work was to deny all of the vows taken at Mount Sinai. It was an action equivalent to a man deliberately spitting in God's face and then, in defiant self-sufficiency and rebellion, breaking the most important law of the covenant by walking away and picking up some sticks or doing some other physical work.

Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.