Quotes about Independence

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

The Declaration of Independence does not mean we are equal in endowments, only in rights.

In order to give man freedom and enable human choices to have consequences, God creates for man an independent, lawful universe. The freedom of man requires, it turns out, the self-limitation of God as well as the independence of the world.

We both have our independence and freedom, but we have those things with each other. It's a paradox, but it works. It all reminded me of what my friend Henry Cloud told me, that when two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.