Quotes About Independence

I'm a woman of mad competence. I'm very optimistic. l have high self-esteem. l give myself choices, and l always feel as if l belong.

Life doesn't have a remote, get up and change it yourself.

Oh. Dishes are dirty? never mind, I prefer starving.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No one can live without the decisions of their own it seems. So they look to someone else to tell them what to be, tell them what to wear, tell them what to say.

The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery

When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul." ~ Anna Quindlen

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul."

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.