Quotes about independence

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

— David Ben-Gurion

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

— Willa Cather

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

— Horace

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.

— Mahalia Jackson

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

— John Keats

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

— Margaret Mead

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

— Steve Schmidt

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

— Henry David Thoreau

So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

— Source Unknown

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

— Walt Whitman

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