Quotes About Independence

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.