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Self Sufficiency Quotes

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"
Democritus
"If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are without regard to place or person"
Thomas Paine
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."
Katherine Hepburn
"The man who can best get along with women, is the man who can get along without them"
Sylvester Stallone
"Wealth is the number of things one can do without"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have"
Erich Fromm
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A charming woman is a busy woman"
Loretta Young
"Being single is nice. No one is asking for favors all the time."
Britney Spears
"The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people, - the less, indeed, other people can be to him"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"A child in work becomes a person with many attributes, one who is independent, able to make decisions, open to the world and aware of the world around him."
Maria Montessori
"I ain’t never need a man to take care of me"
Nicki Minaj
"Solutions to poverty must come from within the community"
Jacqueline Novogratz
"The most intelligent people in the world are those who don’t need to be told"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves"
Swami Vivekananda
"The land belongs to those who work it"
Emiliano Zapata
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it"
John D. Rockefeller
"The gods help them that help themselves."
Aesop
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