Quotes About Independence

Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.

Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

Y esa incapacidad para la acción independiente, esta estupidez moral, esta atrofia de la voluntad, esta mala gana para remover por sí mismo los obstáculos, es lo que retarda el bienestar colectivo de la sociedad.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments ' just isn't cool.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.