Quotes About Independence

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

I don't need to work.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.