Quotes about Independence
Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins…At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!. A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It is in his absence I prosper.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
- Barbara Kingsolver
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
- Stephen Covey
We're responsible for our own lives.
- Stephen Covey
As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As
- Stephen Covey
On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.
- Stephen Covey
As you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence.
- Stephen Covey
I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.
- Stephen Covey
Dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results. Independence is the paradigm of I—I can do it; I am responsible; I am self-reliant; I can choose. Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.
- Stephen Covey