Quotes About Independence

Liberty is the most important thing.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I like to win my own way, and I like to lose my own way. I believe motivation comes from within.

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

To climb into an airplane and motor up by yourself, it is just amazing.