Quotes About Independence

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

In the end you have only you.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

If you cannot bless yourself, then nobody can bless you.

When you are alone you are all your own.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.

It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books