Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.

If you cannot travel honorably, and without begging, I should advise you to stay at home.

No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves. There has never been a leader of our people who went all-out to set up an economic plan for our people. I use the saying of Jesus, "All before me were thieves and robbers.

No, we have no rural delivery. It is two miles to the office, but I go whenever I like. It is really the jolliest kind of fun to gallop down. We are sixty miles from the railroad, but when we want anything we send by the mail-carrier for it, only there is nothing to get.

I don't need you to give me a life, you old fool. Or haven't you noticed that I've got my own?

What did it matter if no one cared, as long as she did herself? Relying on others was a dangerous way to live, and frequently a waste of time

The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially.

Power is the ability not to have to please

Free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others.

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn't wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

Que a perro flaco todo son pulgas, y los españoles no necesitamos a nadie para arruinarnos, pues siempre dominamos bien sobrados el finibusterre de hacerlo solos

Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo —

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

I would rather clean than beg.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I am a rank individualist.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.