Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

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

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

I make money, and I don't need money.

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

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?'

Not until we are able to earn a respectable and independent livelihood, and live without the corroding care of procuring our daily bread, shall we be able to rejoice for having emigrated from Europe, look upon this land as a second fatherland, and cherish it from the core of our heart

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

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.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

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

I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

People are being overwhelmed with social issues, political problems and economic problems - and this notion of giving everything up and going to live off-grid and to have a simpler way of life is quite attractive.

I pay for my own things, and that's how I've always been since I was 15.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

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

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.