Quotes About Independence

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Man's security comes from within himself.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

I... know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

Do for yourself or do without.