Quotes about Self-sufficiency

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

often the rich, the religious, and the self-sufficient know nothing about self-surrender. Jesus

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.