Quotes About Self-sufficiency

'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.

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.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.

Money wants no followers.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.