Quotes About Independence

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

I'm single, I'm enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

It's like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.