Quotes About Independence

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.

Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that...Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.

Madam Yennefer, Forgive me. I'm riding to Hirundum because I want to see Geralt. I want to see him before I start school. Forgive my disobedience, but I must. I know you'll punish me, but I don't want to regret my indecision and hesitation. If I'm to have regrets, let them be for deeds and actions. I'm an enchantress. I seize life by the scruff of the neck. I'll return when I can. - Ciri

On tylko tak gÅ'upio wyglÄ…da - potwierdziÅ' Jaskier. - Ale caÅ'y czas liczÄ™ na to, ?e wreszcie zechce mu siÄ™ wyt??y? mózgownicÄ™. Mo?e wyciÄ…gnie sÅ'uszne wnioski? Mo?e zrozumie, ?e jedynÄ… czynnoÅ›ciÄ…, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwaÅ't?

But I don't want to die in a war, because they're not my wars.

He's just "me, me, by myself, all alone". A lone wolf! But you can see he's no hunter, that he's a stranger to the forest. Wolves don't hunt alone! Never! A lone wolf, ha, what twaddle, foolish townie nonsense. But he doesn't understand that!

Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it — I act. And I always get what I want. - Yennefer

Nie polujÄ… wilcy samotnie! <...> JedynÄ… czynnoÅ›ciÄ…, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwaÅ't.

A w czasach pogardy ten, kto jest sam, musi zgin??.

Stories like that are made up by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.

Porque é que estão a olhar assim para mim? As mulheres não precisam de dinheiro. Para que é que elas haviam de precisar? Não bebem, não jogam aos dados, e elas próprias, que diabos, são mulheres.

Freedom and contempt have their limits. Anyway, it's always like that. You're always somebody's tool.

Najwi?kszym k?opotem Polski jest to, ?e sama siebie pu?ci z torbami. I nie b?dzie do tego potrzebny ?aden ?yd, tak jak nie trzeba by?o ?adnego rosyjskiego zamachu, ?eby rozbi? Polsk? i urz?dzi? jej ma?? wojn? domow?.

We can choose not to allow the choices and actions of someone else to dictate our own.

if you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own. Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

Don't imitate our life. Please learn from our life. Build up your own new life. Just be as much like yourself as you can be.

It is like what Voltaire said, "Il faut cultiver son jardin": You must cultivate your own garden.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.