Quotes about Independence
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
- Wayne Dyer
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
- Timothy Keller
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
- Seneca
Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
- Paulo Coelho
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
- Fannie Lou Hamer