Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7.

Well, I'm an independent person.

I'm a very independent woman.

At 14 I had no choice but to live with my brother, on our own, without adults, with all the responsibilities, decisions and day-to-day practicalities of living independently. I had, though, the joy of earning my own money.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I think that a boat big enough to carry lots of food and spares could circle the globe several times, relying only on rain.

ever since, he's found the corporate lifestyle so stultifying and soul-destroying, he dreams of living in a wigwam in a field of growing his own food

I hope I can pull the wagon by myself. Yes, I'll manage, there's not much in it now. I must get back into business.

There are all sorts of people who will tell you that worms do not mind being cut in half at all because both halves go on living - that the worms laugh it off with an airy shrug of the shoulders, exclaiming 'Oh look! This funny man has cut me in half! How amusing! Now I can go away for a weekend with myself!

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

Far too many people in America today are forced to have others feed them because they simply don't know how to feed themselves.

There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.

I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Everybody has to rescue themselves.

They always said that you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality — the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

Independence is the most important thing of all in life. I say for my part that a man lives in vain until he is independent. People who aren't independent aren't people. A man who isn't his own master is as bad as a man without a dog.