Quotes About Independence

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

... reason accepts no commandments.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.