Dependent Quotes

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Nature gave men two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

As healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well being of woman becomes an object of public interest… history discloses the fact that woman has always been dependent upon man… she is properly placed in a class by herself.” Muller v. Oregon 1908

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater him too much, you are going to make him soft, […]

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man’s bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness. You must furnish your mind with interesting thoughts and ideas. For […]

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men… Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to […]