Personal Independence Quotes

#1. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence
these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein

#2. It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst the rest of the community, personal independence by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder. It

Frederic Bastiat

#3. People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Katharine Anthony

#4. Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

John Longenecker

#5. Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.

Zephyr A. McIntyre

#6. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

Ayn Rand

#7. If you think you can, you can!

Anonymous

#8. If you've got a problem, sleep on it before you make a decision you might later regret. Things always look rosier in the morning.

Jeffrey Archer

#9. Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Phil McGraw

#10. Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the barbaric time when there were no police to protect you, only parents preoccupied with themselves and their taller world.

Ray Bradbury

#11. There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.

John Longenecker

#12. If you don't want to get stuck where you don't want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

Marci G. Fox

#13. For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

Christopher Nolan

#14. Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

Germaine Greer

#15. To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#16. If you're saving, you're succeeding

Steve Burkholder

#17. Witchcraft offers freedom, independence and personal power, which is power 'to' not power 'over'. The practice of magic and meditation leads to self-knowledge.

Gabby Benson

#18. To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Johannes Tauler

#19. Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

Neil Gaiman

#20. Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

Charles F. Glassman

#21. Lost and Found
A sunken chest,
on the ocean ground,
to never be found
was where he found me.
There he stirred,
my every thought,
my every word,
so gently, so profoundly.
Now I am kept,
from dreams I dreamt,
when once I slept,
so soundly.

Lang Leav

#22. When people tell you that you can't live your way, don't believe them.

Louise Hayes

#23. Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

Harvey Karp

#24. As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

Loudon Wainwright III

#25. Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Mark Twain

#26. I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world

Anthony Trollope

#27. To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Mark Polish

#28. Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own.

Katherine Boo

#29. To be in community is to be in personal, interdependent relationship, and it comes with a price: our illusion of independence, our freedom from obligation. You can't have it both ways. If you want community, you must be willing to be obligated, dependent, tied, attached. You will

Charles Eisenstein

#30. Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Jim Rohn

#31. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

Muriel Spark