Quotes About Independence

No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

We're not really free unless we can put matters in our own words. And if we can't put them in our own words, we can't talk to other people, because if we speak the words of the internet or the TV news, other people will recognize that, and they are not really in our company, but somewhere else.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.