Quotes about Independence
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
- William Barclay
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
- Phillips Brooks
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
- Will Rogers
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
- Stephen Covey
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
- Thomas Paine
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
- Ellen Glasgow
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
- Henry David Thoreau