Quotes About Self-reliance

The art of eliminating excuses means embracing the fact that your dreams aren't made or broken by anyone but you.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.

Do what you will, but never out of fear.

Security is not having things, it's handling things.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others

If you don't plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it's seditious. But it's peaceful sedition.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.