Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of my dependence on the modern world. If the modern world collapsed tomorrow I would be fine, and I see so many others who would not be.

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

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.