Quotes about Independence
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
- Rick Warren
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.
- George Clooney