Quotes About Self-sufficiency

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.

From the age of 11, I was taught the importance of earning my own money. I would babysit, walk dogs, clean cars, and work at the local corner shop and the butcher's. If I wanted to buy something, I always bought it myself.

I don't need to impress children.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

I'm for economic independence.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I just like my independence and freedom to come and go and not have an entourage.

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

The world is independent of my will.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

I am as independent as I want to be, same as Catherine and Harry. We've all grown up differently to other generations and I very much feel if that I can do it myself, I want to do it myself.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

I'm very independent.