Quotes About Self-sufficiency

'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I never borrowed money from Mom. I lived at home, but my parents never helped me. I worked hard and moved out. I treated my blog like a business; hard work is important.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us today don't need to know. The only thing I need to survive is to know history.

Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Some people just aren't fit for human company."... "And some people just don't want it.

No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it … not God!

I'd rather be wrong on my own than be right on somebody else's say-so.