Quotes About Independence

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

You have to be free to fail in this world.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.