Quotes About Self-sufficiency

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

By depriving Rejewski of the keys, Langer believed he was preparing him for the inevitable time when the keys would no longer be available. He knew that if war broke out it would be impossible for Schmidt to continue to attend covert meetings, and Rejewski would then be forced to be self-sufficient. Langer thought that Rejewski should practice self-sufficiency in peacetime, as preparation for what lay ahead.

all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact.

I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

Learning how to stand on your own feet and avoid leaning on somebody's shoulder will literally help you to sharpen your knife in this era.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

Don't let others influence your life... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self.... That's lesson for self... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life...

I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

If you build your life on one and only person, be prepared for none and lonely life

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

A child is not a bona fide adult, regardless of age, until the child is self-supporting.) During

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It's the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

Out here a man settles his own problems

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.