Quotes About Independence

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦

No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Throw a puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

May I offer you my protection?' 'Good heavens, no,' she was amused: 'I don't need protection. I'm an Englishwoman.

But I don't imagine I exist to enhance your sense of superiority.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, "So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself." It's true that when you summon the

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

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As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.

If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time.