Independence Inspirational Quotes

#1. Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?

Nalini Singh

#2. I'm not wild ... pussy," I said, stumbling over the last word and feeling my face heat. Desperately, I tried searching for a word that adequately described exactly what I was and came up empty. "I'm ... dusty pussy," I finished with a sigh, feeling ridiculous.

Madeline Sheehan

#3. Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Financial independence is about having more choices.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. At some point, while you were roaming the globe, making treaties and dividing the spoils of war, I quietly declared my own independence. I am the sovereign nation of Clio now. And there will be no terms of surrender.

Tessa Dare

#9. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

Leah Remini

#11. Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One's own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

Lama Surya Das

#12. Our problem is to discover a principle of differentiation and yet relationship lucid enough to justify and to purify both scientific and philosophical knowledge by accepting their mutual independence.

Erich Fromm

#13. If you let anyone tie your Wings with Strings, you can never Fly in the Sky ... Your Independence, Your Freedom is Your Biggest Gift.-RVM

R.v.m.

#14. The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

Jimmy Carter

#15. And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball ...

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#16. People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Emma Goldman

#17. I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

Gerry Schwartz

#18. Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. As late as 1742, London hatters beat to death a man who dared shape headgear without having gone through the apprentice system.

Thomas Levenson

#20. 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

#21. I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

Mitch Hedberg

#22. Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Nathan Hale

#23. Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Bertolt Brecht

#24. I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#25. They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.

Kathy Hepinstall

#26. All mothers breed dead children.

Mie Hansson

#27. If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.

Debasish Mridha

#28. True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path that's our own, through an ideological valley whose landmarks have already been described and claimed by others.

Nicolas Wilson

#29. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.

P.J. Parker

#30. Independence is great but real strength is being able to ask for help when you need it.

Tracey Ward

#31. I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

Nina Kuscsik

#32. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Alexander Pope

#33. Hey, I gotta take a piss. Want to come with me? Said no man ever.

Pamela Clare

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

Erin Loechner

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

Christy Birmingham