Quotes about Independence

If you allow it, people will run your life. They'll tell you what to do, where to go, how to dress, and how to spend your money. It's good to get free from addictions, free from anxiety, and free from depression, but one of the greatest freedoms is to get free from controlling people.

What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.