Top Independence Quotes

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Independence Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.

(n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.

Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.

I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

If you're saving, you're succeeding

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the p...

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it ple...

Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

There’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone...

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

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not...

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I could never, I knew then, lose myself in love. Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatur...

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

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

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.