Quotes About Independence

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.