Quotes about Independence
Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
— Julie Andrews
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.
— Glenn Beck
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
— Thomas Jefferson
Strong and content I travel the open road.
— Walt Whitman
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
— Booker T. Washington
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
— Aristotle
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
— Shirley Chisholm
When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.
— Marianne Williamson
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.
— George Washington
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
— Barbara Brown Taylor