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Quotes About Self-supporting

I'm a very self-sufficient person, much like a lot of people I work with.
~ Kenny Beats
I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
~ Kelly Macdonald
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
~ Gloria Steinem
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.
~ Bruce Lee
Do not expect anything from any one.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Now who is the Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting, and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. He
~ William Graham Sumner
The first of earthly blessings, independence.
~ Edward Gibbon
All great enterprises are self-supporting.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.
~ Shirley MacLaine
I don't want to depend on anyone.
~ Suniel Shetty
The individual, he began in a soft and sadly philosophical tone, is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes besides himself. He
~ Aldous Huxley
Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father
~ Ron Chernow
Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.
~ Stephen King
When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm hoping I can get in a position where I'm self-supporting from my own work.
~ Bill Ward
Imagine if you had to be completely self-sufficient (not just pretending, like Thoreau).
~ Matt Ridley
I've been independent all of my life.
~ Letitia James
Well, I'm an independent person.
~ Victoria Justice
It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.
~ Max Brooks
Punk was not something to grow out of; it was something to grow with—it was a valid, sustainable way to live one's life. "That's when I started to focus on the idea of what we were doing as being real, of being a working model of a real community, an alternative community that could continue to exist outside of the mainstream—and legitimately, and self-supporting," says MacKaye.
~ Michael Azerrad
I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.
~ Redman
By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
~ Ben Lewin
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.
~ John McCain