Quotes About Independence

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30 or work after she is 30 or get married.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'

Don't be a king waiting on a queen.Be a king busy with his kingdom until his queen arrives.