Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.

I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.

you are the authority figure in your life.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True

La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos.

Were I a King, my prime command would be—Leave me alone.

O único modo de desenvolver a superioridade na convivência com os outros é não precisar deles de maneira alguma e fazê-los perceber isso.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Aristotle says, To be happy means to be self-sufficient.

We are free only when we no longer require health, however much we may prefer it.

India was a Free Country. You could make salt. Row jam, if you wanted to.

I left them to themselves.

She taught me that women who want without needing are expensive and sometimes wasteful, but women who need without wanting are dangerous – they suck you in and pretend not to notice.

Maybe one of my problems is I never depend upon the kindness of strangers.

To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I.' The meaning of the 'I' is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us. Roark: But I don't think of you.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Why no. I'm too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.