Quotes About Independence

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.