Quotes About Independence

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

Today I don't have to fit into anyone else's emotional atmosphere.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.