Quotes About Independence

Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.

Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man's mind and a woman's heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle for it.

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

took chances every inch of the way. I had to fight for my independence.

Once he had put the phone down Lennie felt restless. His wife was the most exciting woman in the world, but – damn it – she pissed him off. Why couldn't she say – Lennie, if things are tough, I'll be right there? Why couldn't she forget everything else and be with him? Lucky Santangelo. Drop-dead gorgeous. Strong. Determined. Enormously rich. And too independent. Lucky Santangelo. His wife.

I do things my way -Lucky Santangelos

Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.

My dependence on God allows me to be ever green and ever fruitful, but my independence from God results in my being a hopeless stunted shrub.

A woman of a certain age must learn to hear what suits her purpose," Theodora said with a naughty smile. "Old women and cats do as they please.

Old women and cats do as they please.

An average guy makes a date with a girl. It costs him $100, $200. I make a date with a girl, it costs me nothing. I come up to her house. She wants to go out. I let her go! What's my business? I have to follow her around?

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking, but only at what he himself is doing, in order that he does what is just and respectful of the gods. As Agathon4 said, do not peer into the darkness of another's character, but run straight toward the finish line without straying from your path.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Marriage has just never interested me.

I wondered what would make me stop, whether it would be hunger, sleep or boredom – in other words, what prompts decisions when you are utterly alone.

I am a woman above everything else.

What would Bob think? That's the question. I need to get you a bumper sticker that says WHAT WOULD BOB THINK?" "I don't need the bumper sticker because it's already stamped on my brain and I wish it wasn't. It shouldn't matter so much what he thinks. This is my life without him," she said.