Quotes About Independence

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Your life belongs to you alone. Rise up and live it! ~Richard Rahl

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

Richard will have my hand, but you should know as well as anyone that he will not be eating out of it –and I wouldn't want him to." - Kahlan

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors.

My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the control or influence of you or anyone else.

If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings.

You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.

If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. "Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

A Seeker is a person who answers to no one but himself; he is a law unto himself. The Sword of Truth is his to wield as he wishes, and within the limits of his own strength, he can hold anyone to answer for anything.

You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.