Quotes About Independence

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

Mamma eagles are fierce," the pastor had said. "They're so fierce that—ready or not—they'll push their babies from the nest to force them to fly.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

When I was twenty years old and putting on my first play in Birmingham, Alabama, I had to use my mother's credit card to rent a van to get there. The bill was around three hundred dollars. But the show didn't make any money, and when I came home I had to tell her I couldn't pay for the rental.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, "I'm good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way." You can't depend on that to come from nobody else.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

All I had to say to anyone that doubted our love was, "Eat your knickers!".

I had wasted my life in the pursuit of a career, romance, financial independence and the best heels in town when it seems I could have done more for my self esteem with a .38 calibre handgun

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

WHEN YOU GO TO BED AT NIGHT, YOU LAY THERE AND YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF, 'CAUSE NOBODY'S GONNA TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOU.

I never just assume that someone is going to come along and tell me everything I need to know, and you shouldn't either. You have to do your research, boo.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn't advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That's all that I can say. 'If I fall....' - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

No, no, conmigo no juega nadie, y menos una mujer. ¡Yo soy yo! ¡Mi alma será pequeña pero es mía!

Umuttan kurtulu? tam bir özgürlük demektir

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.