Quotes About Independence

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

Only when we are truly lost are we free to choose our own path.

Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.

No one can do the learning for you.

Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

If people spend years trying to prove that you are less than it's because you are more than enough and they feel threatened. You are more than people's opinions.

Nobody can treat you like a liability without your approval

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

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

On land there was no choice. You conformed to the rigid structures others had left behind. But out there on the bay, it was different. Everything was fluid. Go here, go there. No signs, no narrow lanes, no walls, no paths worn into the water. Out there you were restricted only by the draft of your boat, your energy and will. Your imagination.

To them, joining a group and putting themselves at the mercy of someone else's collectivist judgment makes about as much sense as

They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Davy Crockett among them— blazing the westward trails into Kentucky , Ohio, Tennessee, and beyond, where other Scots-Irishmen like Kit Carson picked up the slack.

The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence was not without some collateral

Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and you end up being made to feel worse for just telling the truth.

but she never wanted to be in a relationship ever again. Because relationships were the worst. So many obligations. So many compromises. So many arguments. Someone always got destroyed in the end. Sometimes everyone got destroyed in the end.