Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free... I am no one's son.

No one gives us anything for free, we become what we're able to do for ourselves.

No me hace falta ser tan buena. Solo necesito disfrutar por mí misma. Y necesito saber que lo he intentado.

it was probably part of the reason she was feeling so miserable. She'd placed her fate and her happiness in the hands of another, and she hated it.

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

But I don't see myself as someone who needs to be managed or has to worry about injuries.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I was never good at taking instructions.

No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me. -Istak

''You are born alone , complete your tasks as such ''

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Mama Odie had been willing to help both Tiana and Naveen the year before. Hopefully, she would be willing to do so again. Please. Please. Please. The strangeness of having to rely on someone else for help struck Tiana anew. She knew she was independent to a fault. She had lost count of how many times she had wasted hours---sometimes even days ---toiling away at some task or another, refusing to ask for help.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.

We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.