Self Independence Quotes: top 66 famous quotes about Self Independence

Self Independence Quotes & Sayings

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There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. — Frederick William Faber

When you are independent you learn strategies of self empowerment — Marcelle Hinkson

Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America. — Jennifer Harrison

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. — Jalal Talabani

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last. — Charlotte Bronte

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one. — Plato

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. — Pawan Mishra

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. — Ralph Ellison

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. — Mandy Hale

In yourself right now is all the place you've got. — Flannery O'Connor

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence. — Norman Finkelstein

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark. — Marty Rubin

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love. — Bryant McGill

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing. — Nathan McCall

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life. — Marlon Brando

When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves. — Vironika Tugaleva

Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery. — Charles F. Glassman

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority. — Thorin

I'm single because I was born that way. — Mae West

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself. — Trisha Leigh

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others. — Sara Raasch

I can take care of myself," I said hotly.
"Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself. — Nenia Campbell

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon. — Markus Zusak

I'd rather die my way than live yours. — Lauren Oliver

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self. — Maria Montessori

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Rumi

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. — Greta Garbo

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. — Martha Stewart

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it. — Kris Rafferty

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. — Soseki Natsume

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. — William Shakespeare

To find yourself, think for yourself. — Socrates

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. — Marcus Aurelius

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts. — Nathaniel Branden

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. — James H. Douglas Jr.

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. — Thomas Szasz

We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are. — Erin Loechner

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. — John Piper

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams. — H.W. Brands

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. — Al MacInnis

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect. — Ronald Reagan

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. — Mark Twain

And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying. — Una LaMarche

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

All great enterprises are self-supporting. — Henry David Thoreau

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness — Leo Buscaglia

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. — Ken Robinson

I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be. — Garrett McCoy

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. — Robert M. Pirsig

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... — William Shakespeare

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi