Independence And Dependence Quotes

#1. It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

J. Reuben Clark

#2. An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

Criss Jami

#3. Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#4. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

Jimmy Carter

#5. Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Rollo May

#6. Americans have come to define liberty negatively, as lack of dependence, the right not to be obligated to others. Independence came to mean immunity from social claims on one's wealth or time.

Jennifer Senior

#7. When it comes to the question of dependence or independence! - At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.

Jane Austen

#8. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.

Maggie Nelson

#9. Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.

Bernhard Schlink

#10. Our independence shall be our total dependence on the Divine Being, God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Fred Rogers

#12. Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

Cal Thomas

#13. 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

#14. The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility - all in the name of independence.

Stephen R. Covey

#15. Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Jenna Jameson

#16. We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

Cory Booker

#17. The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Jeremy Bentham

#18. Good works are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ
whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

W. Ian Thomas

#19. It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

Catherine Tate

#20. You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Scott Walker

#21. Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#22. If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday

Sunday Adelaja

#23. People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can't think for you. You don't blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them to do what you must do.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.

Dan Groat

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

John D. Rockefeller

#26. Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

Susan B. Anthony

#27. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

Ernest Kurtz

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

Anonymous

#29. Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD ... but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#30. In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else
where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

Karen Salmansohn

#32. There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.

Hester Browne

#33. Because of the way society sets them up, women never again experience the need to develop independence - until some crisis in later life explodes their complacency, showing them how sadly helpless and undeveloped they've allowed themselves to be.

Colette Dowling

#34. In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

#35. Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Fulton J. Sheen

#36. 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

#37. All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

Willard Gaylin

#38. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Gary Hopkins

#39. Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

#40. We have rejected the position of dependence which our createdness inevitably involves, and made a bid for independence. Worse still, we have dared to proclaim our self-dependence, our autonomy, which is to claim the position occupied by God alone.

John R.W. Stott

#41. Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

James Dobson

#42. We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

Ronald Reagan

#43. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

Vironika Tugaleva

#45. Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K Anspacher

#46. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Emme Rollins

#47. Employment will fail you someday

Sunday Adelaja

#48. Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Blaise Pascal