Quotes About Independence

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

Accepting help is its own kind of strength.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.