Quotes About Independence

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Don't let others regiment your life and enslave you emotionally. Be the soldier and liberate your emotions, for only you hold the power to make this life beautiful and full of adventure and no one else.

Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else.

The best day in your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

There is only one success-to be able to spend our life in your own way.

Your life will get better when you realize it's better to be alone than to chase people who really don't care about you.

The best way to live your life is to not not care what other people think about you.

To fly high you must come out of the nest and dream high.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Be fearless when it comes to life, and careless when it comes to what people say and think about you.

If you plan on working for someone else for the rest of your life, then plan on working for the rest of your life.

Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experiences.

Life is not about competition it's about making your dreams come true and becoming independent.

Sometimes no matter what you do or how hard you try, people will always have their own opinion on you.

One must be willing to minimize their dependence on others, and just rely upon God, faith, and their own heart in order to keep climbing higher in life.

Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people never thought you would.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

Some of us need to learn to be heroes to ourselves before we can be that for others.

If I do this thing," he said, "it is the last I will ever do for you. Do not come begging again." "Father," I said, "I never will. I leave this place tomorrow." He would not ask where, he would not even wonder. So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

I always seemed to be in a lull, a strange pocket of emptiness into which no men came, and I was never threatened.

I could feel his power reaching for my secrets. In the old days I would have rushed forth with a brimming cup of answers, to give him all he wanted. But I was not the same as I had been. I owed him nothing. He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

But there was something in me that was sick of fear and awe, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me.

You threw me to the crows, but i turns out I prefer them to you.