Quotes About Independence

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.