Independence Quotes

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Jane Austen

she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of a relationship with her would diminish her appeal, that the moment she came to love me back and depend on me as much as I depended on her, she would no longer be a truly independent spirit. No way in hell was I going to be the one to take that quality away from her.

Jodi Picoult

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Albert Camus

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

David BenGurion

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Harold Sherman

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

J.K. Rowling

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Frederick William Robertson

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

June Jordan

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Jean de La Fontaine

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Willa Cather

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

Michel de Montaigne

God helps them that help themselves.

Proverb

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Henry David Thoreau

Every country and every people has a stake in the Afghan resistance, for the freedom fighters of Afghanistan are defending principles of independence and freedom that form the basis of global security and stability.

Ronald Reagan

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as his only AVAILABLE one, thus proving that he is himself AVAILABLE for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

Henry David Thoreau

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John Milton Cage