Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Although I despise the hanging jaw of hunger, I do not intend that the needy should look to me for their banquet.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

Ese es el problema con los chiflados: se les ocurre una gran idea que funciona de verdad y luego esperan que les financies durante años mientras ellos se dedican a estudiar la topografía de su ombligo.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

I help those who can help themselves.

Every time the sun shone on me in the morning, I couldn't help thinking that from that moment on my day would begin to be like that of an ordinary child. But it wasn't out of discontent that this feeling came to me; it was a sense of self-sufficiency and satisfaction.

As a rule, Heather didn't believe in pity parties.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

I do it all, man. I produce, I do my own wardrobe and my own ironing, too!

I'm every woman. I cook, I clean, wash the clothes, fold them up. Do the massages. I got the part a woman does.

I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.