Quotes about Independence
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
— Les Brown
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
— Les Brown
I don't like belonging to another person's dream
— Lewis Carroll
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
— John Ortberg
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
— Joseph Campbell
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
— Aesop
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
— Oprah Winfrey
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
— Herbert Hoover
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
— Billie Jean King
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
— Albert Einstein
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
— Albert Einstein
I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.
— Albert Einstein