Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

You help me become someone who can save himself.

Women do cook for themselves you know. You think when we're on our own we sob into a lonely bowl of cereal? This may come as a surprise, but cooking isn't something we only do when there is a man around.

I took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get closest to Nature, and subsist upon what she gives of her own free will. There have been no drudging, heavy-shod ploughmen to overturn the soil, and vex it into yielding artificial crops. Here one has to take just what Nature is pleased to give, whether one is a yellow-bird or a human being.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

The heart of Babylon will always be arrogant self-sufficiency that has no need for God, no care for the people of God, and no commitment to the ways of God.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

Self-reliance is the ability to apply your individuality to the world, based on a framework of emotional, physical, and financial support for yourself.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you've made about your own reality?

The essence of a degree of freedom is that it doesn't depend on anything else.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.