Independence Quotes

Standing on the top of this Monte d'Ora watching the sun come radiantly alive, Turi Guiliano was filled with youthful glee that he had escaped his enemies. He would never obey another human being again. He would choose who should live and who should die, and there was no doubt in his mind that all he would do would be for the glory and freedom of Sicily, for good and not for evil. That he would only strike for the cause of justice, to help the poor. that he would win every battle, that he would win the love of the oppressed.He was twenty years old.

~ Mario Puzo The Sicilian

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.

~ Cate Cameron

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence. -Amya

~ Lydhia Marie

A good relationship does not celebrate dependence; it nurtures the spirit of independence. Fall in love with yourself and commit to your goals, dreams and desires, that’s the most important relationship you can be in.

~ Malti Bhojwani

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

~ Bipan Chandra

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his ownspirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.

~ Ben Okri

It also strikes me that male-to-male bonding can create a gender role conflict, as it challenges the myth of full independence. Heroism is an exception. In fact, heroism has a long tradition as part of manhood. Bonds formed through natural disaster or war are exceptions to the typical “self-reliance” rules. These are op-portunities for men to experience a type of connection with each other that is ordinarily prohibited by the “rules” of manhood.

~ Mary Crocker Cook

You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else's life-war.

~ Tom Robbins

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.

~ Thrity Umrigar

We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.

~ Atul Gawande

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

~ Kris Rafferty

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Nowadays all over the world fighting goes on for freedom and independence but it is hard to find anyone to whom the mystery of the godlike freedom of children of the Heavenly Father has been revealed.

~ Sophrony Sakharov

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

We need three basic things to live - food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill our basic needs by ourselves, why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything else on our own? Just what are we trying to prove?

~ Christine Hassler

Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I would be for one little Jew, terrified and hungry, crossing the Pyrenees to get away to freedom from the Gestapo. One little Jew. You wouldn't have him in your house. He stinks, he has lice. But, you know what, Commander? I am for him, every time.” And he would punch me in the shoulder and lug his M-1 up onto the ridge, night after night.

~ James A. Michener

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

~ Auliq Ice

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

~ Colleen Hoover

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

~ Rosamunde Pilcher

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

~ A.g. Howard

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

~ James E. Talmage

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

~ Lauren Oliver

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

~ Anonymous

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

~ José Rizal

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

~ Lindsey Davis

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

That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask for help. Some people are good at it, asking friends or their husbands to collect ginger ale and crackers at the grocery because they feel nauseous, or standing on the side of the road with a tire iron in one hand, hoping someone will stop to change their flat tire. I'm not like that; I'd rather have a rough stick dragged across my gums than walk to the neighbor's house to borrow sugar or ask for help jump-starting my car.

~ Dee Williams

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still.The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled.The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight.What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings.Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny.

~ Paulo Coelho

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

~ Halldór Laxness

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

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I fail to find even one Netaji among the several thousand Netas of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some inanimate savior, she has wings of her own to flutter and soar. I intend to fly beside her, to tumble through the air in loops and gambols, to carry her when she grows tired, to keep her warm beneath them against raging winds.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

~ Leigh Hershkovich

[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?

~ Emily Matchar