Quotes About Independence

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

When you are looking to be validated by others, you are living according to their values, not yours.

Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

My family taught me something: I don't ask. What's yours, you do not ask for.

Being cheated on didn't make me more insecure, it made me stronger because I know that it's not your fault. If someone disrespects you it's their problem, not yours; there's no point worrying.

In this game you can waste a lot of energy wondering about other people's opinions when the one that actually counts is yours. Because that's your job, to lead and to manage.

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.