Independence Quotes

I help those who can help themselves.

Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?

Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

When you are independent you learn strategies of self empowerment

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

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I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

I worry that independence will never feel safe again.

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied, "Are they going to call the trade show police?

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

I don't want to have to save your life, ' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.

We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.

Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.