Quotes About Self-sufficiency

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

I learned how to cook, how to iron clothes. That really helped me be more mature than guys who are my age.

We lived off the land in Italy.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

James Franco is a coach, therefore he doesn't need coaching or guidance.

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.

Every man paddle his own canoe.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Do what you can," Kelsier said. "I'll seek these people to the west." "They won't help." "I'm not going to ask for their help," Kelsier said, then smiled. "I'm going to rob them.

I'm not some tortured, abandoned creature, Wayne," Marasi said, finding herself smiling at her distorted reflection in a ladle. "I'm not sitting around pining and dreaming for someone else to decide if I should be happy. There's nothing there. Whether that's due to actual lack of affection on his part, or more to stubbornness, I don't care. I've moved on.

That is good. I should not like to be maintained by one who lacks brain functions.

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

She'd built her life around not having to wait for anyone or anything.

I don't need company to be confident.

Happy is the people who need no heroes.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.