Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

I have found there is no difficulty in inducing men to look after their own property.

More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

I've got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, 'cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

A man's neighbors or his landlord may be much cleverer than himself, and not without an indirect interest in his prosperity, but for all that his interests will be better attended to in his own keeping than in theirs.

I don't depend on 'The Kapil Sharma' Show for my living.

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

I had always looked after myself after I stopped playing.

I just respect people and mind my business. I don't got time to worry about what the next man's pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.

My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.

We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

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.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

If you can't take care of yourself, how the heck are you going to take care of everyone around you?

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

I just look at what is best for me.

I've always had a job. I left home when I was 16, and you have to look after yourself.

I think I just gotta get more selfish.

You have to do what you have to do to make myself and my family happy.

I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.