Quotes About Independence

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.

She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

Solitude helps you figure out where everybody else stops and you begin

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I could, for the first time in maybe thirty years, make my own decision, trust it, and move forward.

So maybe you should try to find an answer for yourself instead of waiting around to see what Sam's going to do. Doing something is always easier than waiting.

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another person can provide it. The result, long in coming and always worth the effort, is the experience of authentic agency in your own life, a sense of self that cannot be destroyed because it is not dependent on anyone else.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

It was difficult, but I managed. When I had money, I'd buy film and we'd shoot. I think your first film should be made with your own blood. [On producing his first full length film, Le Silence de la Mer (1949) himself]

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

Think for yourself and figure out what's true. That's it. Ask yourself what's true until you know.

Think for yourself. That's the golden rule. Think for yourself. Make it your mantra. Tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids.

Allegiance to any spiritual teaching or teacher—any outside authority—is the most treacherous beast in the jungle.

Reading self-help advice from other people, however well-intentioned, is no substitute for getting your own damn work done. The