Quotes About Independence

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Stacy waited till she was certain he'd fallen asleep, then slipped free of his grasp, edging backward, leaving his hand lying open on the tent's floor, palm up, slightly cupped, like a beggar's. She imagined dropping a coin into it, late at night on some dark city street; she pictured herself hurrying off, never to see him again.

If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

Self-reliance is the ability to apply your individuality to the world, based on a framework of emotional, physical, and financial support for yourself.

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Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence. Managers who want better performance must provide what their staff needs.

There's a degree of control that the filter of technology gives you—a control that introverts often prefer.

Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.

you can look inside yourself and find strength to make choices you believe in, even if others do not agree with those choices.

Here's why famous experts who write books never go back to regular jobs: regular jobs are hard. Regular jobs mean you answer to others. Regular jobs mean you do regular, and often repetitive, things. Regular jobs mean you are not the center of attention and have to follow rules made by other people.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you've made about your own reality?

It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.

Enlightenment is man's exit from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one's intellect without the direction of another…. 'Sapere aude! (Dare to know!)' … 'Have the courage to make use of your own intellect!' is hence the motto of enlightenment" (Kant 1784/2006, 17).

Each of us must walk our own path, most of us blindly, and that whatever guidance we can give one another is a bonus.

What you prefer, little tyrant, has nothing to do with what I am telling you. For the rest of the night, you can drink beer or air; the choice is entirely yours.

Non c'è libertà come la libertà di essere sempre sottovalutati.»

Non c'è libertà come la libertà di essere sempre sottovalutati.

Nada da tanta libertad como el hecho de ser constantemente subestimado.

How you live is truly a choice. What you're going to do and who you are going to do it with, those are choices only you can make. That was my "aha" moment.

Benjamin Franklin wasn't trusted to write the US Declaration of Independence because it was feared he would conceal a joke in it.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Creative people generally are self-motivated, independent, delighted by novelty, risk takers, tolerant of ambiguity, deeply involved in their work, avid readers, and world travelers.