Quotes About Independence

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Healthy independence includes a healthy interdependence on people who care about us, where we help them and they help us.

The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'.

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

It is wonderful to have a lot of friends, just make sure you are your own best friend.

Who needs friends I stand alone.

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.