Independence Quotes

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt. I could hardly bear my pleasure for the guilt. There is no wonder that a passion for independence sprang up in me at the earliest age. It took me a long time to manage the independence, (but) I have never managed to handle the guilt. In the act and the course of writing stories, these are the two springs, one bright, one dark, that feed the stream.

~ Eudora Welty

Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

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

~ Erin Loechner

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself.Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.And that would have to do.

~ L.j. Smith

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

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

~ Natasha Tsakos

In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in world history. American Negro nationalism can never create its own values, find its revolutionary significance, define its political and economic goals, until Negro intellectuals take up the cudgels against the cultural imperialism practiced in all of its manifold ramifications on the Negro within American culture. But this kind of revolution would have to be predicated on the recognition that the cultural and artistic originality of the American nation is founded, historically, on the ingredients of a black aesthetic and artistic base.

~ Harold Cruse

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

~ John Locke

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.

~ Philip Pullman

You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.

~ M.l. Legette

Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness.

~ Aspen Matis

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might as well look you up this morning.

~ Halldór Laxness

All mothers breed dead children.

~ Mie Hansson

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

~ Matt Perman

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

~ Malcolm X

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

~ Mervyn Peake

Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. An unhappy person felt as if there were barriers crushing her desires and the talents she had inside. A happy woman was one who could exercise all kinds of rights, from the right to move to the right to create, compete, and challenge, and at the same time could be loved for doing so. Part of happiness was to be loved by a man who enjoyed your strength and was proud of your talents. Happiness was also about the right to privacy, the right to retreat from the company of others and plunge into contemplative solitude. Or sit by yourself doing nothing for a whole day, and not give excuses or feel guilty about it either. Happiness was to be with loved ones, and yet still feel that you existed as a separate being, that ou were not just there to make them happy. Happiness was when there was a balance between what you gave and what you took.

~ Fatema Mernissi

I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.

~ Deborah Feldman

Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.

~ Christy Birmingham

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

~ Halldór Laxness

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

~ Albert Camus

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

~ Susan Vaught

But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid and you're told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When you're a teenager and your parents tell you no, you're old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But you're smarter and you're sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know what's best. But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway. Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know whats best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

If you're waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can't do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I'm the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels, who'll fall into your arms just because you saved me from an alternate reality or whatever, get ready to leave empty handed, because I don't want to be caught.

~ Dianna Hardy

Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

~ Beth Lewis

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.

~ John Fowles

Let me tell you something, honey. Fifty percent of life is others trying to push their own agenda on you—their belief system, their views, their convictions. The other fifty percent is you deciding whether or not you’re going to let them. Or if you’re going to form your own opinions.-Miss Velma

~ Rachael Wade

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

~ James Surowiecki

I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.

~ Laura Lam

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?

~ Bill Watterson

I only know how to be one thing. And that’s me. Take it or leave it. I don’t really give a shit.

~ Peter Cimino

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt