Quotes About Independence

Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So

Well, if nobody will have me... Mercy shrugged. I will die unmarried and my moral convictions will be to me like a husband. For I cannot change my nature, and for as long as I live I do not intend to marry someone who disagrees with me in this.

Every fat must stand upon its own bottom;

Every tub must stand upon its own without the need of assistance.

I did it my own self to gratify.

Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.

Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." —Andrew Carnegie

you should not be led by popular opinion;

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." —JIM ROHN

You shouldn't become too concerned about what others might think of you. You should be more concerned about what you think of yourself.

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

Yo debo gobernar el reloj, no ser gobernada por él". —Golda Meir

You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink. If

Good leaders never embrace a victim mentality. They recognize that who and where they are remain their responsibility—not that of their parents, their spouses, their children, the government, their bosses, or their coworkers.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your success or happiness, then you will be neither happy nor successful.

If you worry about what other people think of you, it's because you have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press.

But at the end of the day, you and only you must decide which criticisms and suggestions you accept.

To be independent, a nation state must be able to control its energy source.

Life is hard but the harder you work the better your life well be no one can do it for you they can help, but you're the only one that can help yourself.

Sometimes the person you want most, is the person you're best without.