Quotes About Independence

Der Schriftsteller Neale Donald Walsch schreibt: Solange du dir darüber Sorgen machst, was andere von dir denken, gehörst du ihnen. Nur wenn du keine Zustimmung von außen brauchst, kannst Dur dir selbst gehören.

Wie wäre mein Leben verlaufen, wenn ich mich nicht darum geschert hätte, was die Leute denken?

Enquanto estiver preocupado com o que os outros pensam ao seu respeito, você pertence a eles. Só quando deixa de buscar a aprovação externa você torna dono de si mesmo.

books were my pass to personal freedom

Sizin saç?n?z?n k?rm?z?s? doÄŸuÅŸtan, benimki ise kendi karar?m dedim hemen an?nda.

Üstelik bizim memlekette dikbaÅŸl? olmak, kendi kendine karar vermek hoÅŸ bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ki! Ä°nsan her zaman daa iyi bilen, daha iyi düÅŸünen birine kendini emanet etmeli, birisine baÄŸlanmal?, bir inanc? benimsemeli.

Babas?z büyürsen âlemin bir merkezi ve s?n?r? olduÄŸunu anlamaz, her ÅŸeyi yapabileceÄŸini san?rs?n...ama bir süre sonra ne yapaca??n? bilmez, dünyada bir mana, bir merkez bulmaya çal???r, sana hay?r diyecek birini aramaya baÅŸlars?n.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

No man ever climbed to success on another's back.

Luck is waiting for something to turn up; labor, with keen eye and strong will, will turn something up. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six o'clock, and, with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays a foundation for a competence. Luck whines; labor whistles. Luck relies on charms; labor depends on character. Luck slips down to indigence; labor strides upward to independence.

The man without self-reliance and an iron will is the plaything of chance, the puppet of his environment, the slave of circumstances.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. It

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

I thought commanders could order anything." They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

No one with him to tell him he must eat, he must go practice, he must sleep. Freedom. The trouble was, he didn't know what to do.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.