Quotes About Independence

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.