Quotes About Independence

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

A wise and salutary neglect.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself for a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.

street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

1.-Un pez atado pertenece a quien lo ató. 2.-Un pez suelto es presa para cualquiera que lo atrape.

Tis July's immortal Fourth; all fountains must run wine today!

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors

South Wind had been, in Marjorie's visions, a new clear world, a world where a grimy Bronx childhood and a fumbling Hunter adolescence were forgotten dreams, a world where she could at last find herself and be herself—clean, fresh, alone, untrammelled by parents. In a word, it had been the world of Marjorie Morningstar.

This country of ours consists of pioneers, after

Just because some man pays you some attention doesn't mean you're somehow obliged to devote your life to him. You're worth MORE than that.

There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

Maybe it's not a choice between the two of them. Maybe there's a third choice. Or a fourth or a fifth. Or maybe it's not about having a guy right now. Maybe it's just about having friends.

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I'm just a chick who's scared of commitment and on the run, who's weird for ignoring Glamour magazine's predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an underrated form of liberation.

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.

Command thy vassals, but command not me.

Tenderness and ferocity are essential for a woman journeying far from home.