Quotes about Independence
The only free positions in this world are at the bottom and at the edges of things.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.
- Rick Warren
Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.
- Louise Hay
The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
- William Paul Young
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
- George Washington
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
- Muhammad Ali
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
- John Quincy Adams
Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.
- James Dobson
Interdependence is a higher value than independence
- Stephen Covey
And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.
- William Wordsworth
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
- William Wordsworth