Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

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.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.

Any external support, if you want to call it support, let's use this world, is... how to say... it's going to be additional, but it's not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

There were other things than love upon which to thrive." (MT, p140)

Hill-Billie was threatening for being free from hierarchy and unassimilated into Atlantic capitalism.

We should havest our sustenance, not beg for it!

His life comprised small, precise pleasures. Most people liked him, for he was quiet and gentle, but he did not yearn for their company. His ironic smile, springing auburn hair and attenuated good looks pleased women, yet he seemed not to notice the messages in their eyes.