Independence Quotes

1. Independence is happiness.

^{Susan B. Anthony}

2. What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

3. Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

^{Stephen Covey}

4. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.

^{Brigham Young}

^{My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.}

^{Ruth Bader Ginsburg}

5. Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

^{Malcolm Forbes}

6. The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

^{Caroline Kennedy}

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

^{Calvin Coolidge}

8. Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

^{Louis D. Brandeis}

9. Injustice in the end produces independence.

^Voltaire

10. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

^{Alexis de Tocqueville}

11. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.

^{Thomas J. Watson}

12. I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.

^{Diane von Furstenberg}

13. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

^{Charlotte Bronte}

14. Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

^{George Bernard Shaw}

15. Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

^{George Henry Lewes}

16. It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

^{James Baldwin}

17. The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

^{James Cash Penney}

18. What you get free costs too much.

^{Jean Anouilh}

19. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

^{John D. Rockefeller}

20. Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

^{William J. Clinton}

21. Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want.

^{Stephen Breyer}

22. I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

^{Betty Ford}

23. There’s no such thing as an independent person.

^{Peter Jennings}

24. There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

^{William F. Buckley, Jr.}

25. Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

^{Walt Disney}

26. Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

^{David Ben-Gurion}

27. Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

^{Jim Rohn}

28. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

^{James Madison}

29. At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

^{Booker T. Washington}

30. The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

^{Eddie Rickenbacker}

31. The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

^{John Piper}

^{Jackie Robinson}

32. Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

^{Marianne Moore}

33. The world is independent of my will.

^{Ludwig Wittgenstein}

34. America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

^{Anna Quindlen}

35. The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

^{Theodor W. Adorno}

36. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

^{W. Somerset Maugham}

37. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

^{Mary Wollstonecraft}