Quotes About Independence

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Independence is happiness.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

No man may make another free.

My future is one I must make myself.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.