Quotes About Independence

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help those who help themselves.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.