Quotes about Independence
Where there's liberty, art succeeds.
— Ronald Reagan
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We can make a strong unconditional commitment to ourselves to take care of our deepest needs, no matter what other people do or don't do.
— William Ury
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
— Coco Chanel
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
— Coco Chanel
Whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom and independence, and degrades himself to an instrument for an alien and unknown power.
— Herman Bavinck
We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
— Mark Twain
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
— Oscar Wilde
If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
— Thomas a Kempis
I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
— Toni Morrison