Independence Quotes

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

Don't expect me to die for you.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

Don't feel sorry for me.

Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.

I have felt independent of the opinions of others in terms of whether or not I should or shouldn't be doing that. There's something that I allow to consult myself within myself rather than looking outside to see if this is right or not.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.