Quotes About Independence

There is courage in not caring what others think about your uncommon action, when you find that the greatest show in the universe is the universe.

We are no one's reflection— we shine in dark places by the light of our own being

Queen Elizabeth I

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

I don't have any pets. I've got enough dumb friends without them.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

A lifetime of being constantly at the mercy of others left me, even though mercy was undoubtedly shown, crushed and seething with a lust for tyranny.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

the concepts of libertas and libertà came to be employed 'almost as technical terms of Florentine politics and diplomacy' in the course of the fourteenth century, and that they were almost invariably used in order to express the same ideas of independence and self-government

Özgürlüklerinin korunmas? için kral?n iyi niyetine güvenmek zorunda b?rak?ld?klar? ölçüde, özgür uyruklar olarak deÄŸil, tutsaklar olarak yaÅŸamaya mahkûm olacaklar...

I have to go. That's in my blood. You can't take the cowboy out of me, Cade, and a cowboy looks after his horse. First and last. That's all there is to it" "And what about the woman? Where do I fit into your stupid, corny cowboy code of honor?

miguelito] Qué seré grande yo cuando sea grande, no sé. Lo que sí sé es que no seré uno más del montón. Eso sé! [mafalda] Otro más que engrosa el montón de los que no quieren ser uno más del montón!

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

I am perfectly well and happy here.... All I want is to be left alone to live my life as I wish and not as other people think best for themselves.

I must be very selfish, she thought, for I want to set nothing and no one right; all I want is to be left in peace to make what I can of this problem called life for myself and my children.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.

I don't want to interfere with my children's lives any more than you do, but I want them to be happy. Must growing up always mean a breaking up?" she asked sadly. "No, but it often means a breaking away," the captain said. "And you wouldn't want them to stay anchored for the rest of their existence, growing barnacles all over them and rotting away with rust.