Self-Supporting Quotes

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.

... black women ... are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

I'm an independent.

I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.