Quotes About Independence

Some people tell you what you should and shouldn't be. Who said you had to obey them? Who made it a law? Nobody. Don't let anyone else dictate your life. Don't let people speak for you. Speak for yourself and stand by yourself whatever it takes.

You fall but get back up because if you stay down who's going to pick you up?

Whenever you feel alone and abandoned just remind yourself that you came in this world alone and you will leave this world alone.

These days it's important to be your own best friend. Have your own back, and ride for yourself. Fight for yourself and what you want.

Life is lived successfully if lived by your own standards, not by the standards of others.

Do what you think is right, not what people think is right. In the end, it's you who go through it, not them.

I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own

People spend too much time looking for someone else that will make them happy. Realize that it's your job to make yourself happy.

Being alone makes me feel free and more independent. Responsibility is all I own!

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Know that you can trust yourself in all the decisions you make.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself

Instead of leaning too hard on another's faith in us, we must learn to embrace that we must have faith in ourselves.

You are responsible for your life. So why expect something to happen for motivation. Self motivation is biggest drive for self empowerment.

It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

In the end, the only person you can rely on is yourself.

Leaving takes strength, self-respect, self-love and knowing your worth. Without the above you'll continue to put up with their disrespect.

I have reached a point in life where I feel it is no longer necessary to try and impress anyone. If they like me the way I am, good and if they don't, it's their loss.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

Some girls are like a bowling ball they always have a finger in them, Respect yourself.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

In life, don't give away so much of yourself for anyone... that when it comes to finding yourself, you'd be lost.

Don't try to change me. I like myself this way. If you can't handle, it's not my problem.