220 Independence Quotes to Help You Break Free From the Norm

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Famous Independence Quotes

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

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 Shelley

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve. — Monty Roberts

Freedom is self-determination. — Baruch Spinoza

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it. — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make — Stephen Covey

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. — Brigham Young

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. — Aslan Maskhadov

Sanitation is more important than Independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources. — Jim Rohn

Short Independence Quotes

  • Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking. — Bhagat Singh
  • As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda
  • I would rather be a rebel than a slave. — Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
  • The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
  • Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
  • Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
  • It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
  • When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss

Independence Image Quotes

Independence quote Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence
Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. - Jose Rizal quote

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. - Tom Allen quote

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. — Tom Allen

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes quote

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. — Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. - Bernie Sanders quote

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. — Bernie Sanders

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. - Emir Kusturica quote

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. — Emir Kusturica

Independence quote A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammu
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.

Financial Independence Quotes

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. — Jim Rohn

I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do. — Bill Ackman

You must own equity to gain your financial freedom. — Naval Ravikant

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. — Ellen Glasgow

You’re never going to get rich renting out your time. — Naval Ravikant

I learned how to make money because it was a necessity. — Naval Ravikant

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant

I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. — Jim Rohn

To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence. — Jim Rohn

Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep. — Naval Ravikant

Inspirational Independence Quotes

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. - Ho Chi Minh

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh

The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved. — Sri Aurobindo

Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan

Indian Independence Quotes

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country. — Richard M. Nixon

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. — Max Muller

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. — Rabindranath Tagore

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. — Mark Twain

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. — George Bernard Shaw

Emotional Independence Quotes

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. — Karen Horney

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. — Stephen Covey

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. — Milton Avery

May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times? — Charles Darwin

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. — Wyndham Lewis

To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result. — Seth

The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life. — Tom Robbins

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. — Olivia Mellan

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created. — Helene Deutsch

India Independence Quotes

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh

India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind. — Rajiv Gandhi

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel

India must remain neutral. The West colonized India, funded Pakistan, tried to stop Goa’s reclamation and Bangladesh’s independence, and sanctioned India for going nuclear to defend itself vs China. Everyone’s trading partner, but no one’s trained poodle. Colonialism is over. — Balaji Srinivasan

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence — Mahatma Gandhi

India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. — Abdul Kalam

No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult. — Vallabhbhai Patel

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses. — Narendra Modi

Independence And Freedom Quotes

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. — Ho Chi Minh

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends. — Friedrich Engels

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood. — Emma Goldman

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Independence Day Quotes

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone — Katharine Hepburn

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free. — John Taylor Gatto

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. — Charles Austin Beard

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course. — Nicola Sturgeon

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine

Happy Independence Quotes

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. — Terence McKenna

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government. — Thomas Jefferson

If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person. — Amir Levine

My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. — Eric Yuan

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. — Epictetus

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas. — John Cornyn

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. — Susan B. Anthony

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world. — Christina, Queen of Sweden

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed — Walter E. Williams

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed? — John Tyler

Country Independence Quotes

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity. — Saadat Hasan Manto

I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. — Herbert Hoover

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world. — Nicola Sturgeon

We are all here, defending our independence, our country. And it will stay that way. Glory to the men and women defending us. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. — Nathanael Greene

I think everybody in Ukraine is so tired about Burisma. We have our own country. We have our independence, we have our problems and questions. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

Political Independence Quotes

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. — Karl von Clausewitz

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. — Richard Henry Lee

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside. — Kwame Nkrumah

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate. — Max Keiser

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. — Haile Selassie

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. — Vladimir Lenin

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

I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own. — Gregory Peck

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency. — Amity Shlaes

Declaration Of Independence Quotes

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate

I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. — Victoria Woodhull

However, if Taiwan declares full independence from China, which China would consider an act of war, the U.S. is not to come to its rescue, as this would be considered provocative. — Tim Marshall

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.' — Antonin Scalia

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. — John Hancock

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. — Michael McCaul

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. — Nicolas Cage

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn

Inspiring Independence Day Quotes

If you want something done, ask a busy person. — Benjamin Franklin

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days. — Nelson Mandela

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. — Lady Gaga

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. — Samuel Francis Smith

Let freedom never perish in your hands. — Joseph Addison

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! — Samuel Francis Smith

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day. — Martina McBride

True Independence Quotes

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. - Isabella Rossellini

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish. — Paul Kagame

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity. — James Joyce

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block. — Debbie Allen

Just because a lot of people say something is true, that doesn’t carry any particular weight with me. — Edward O. Thorp

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. — Elizabeth Loftus

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice! — Andrew Wommack

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved. — Elbert Hubbard

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice. — Oliver Stone

Individual Independence Quotes

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations. — Che Guevara

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. — George Carlin

You cannot breathe through another man’s nose. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Rule number one: fuck what they think. — Jordan Belfort

Make a choice: Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. — Meghan Markle

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. — Karl Marx

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

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

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. — Ayn Rand

Personal Independence Quotes

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart

Insecurity can be solved the hard way or the easy way—and by giving people the easy option, dogmatic tribes remove the pressure to do the hard work of evolving into a more independent person with a more internally-defined identity. — Tim Urban

You need to do some independent thinking, especially about the important things, and try to work them out for yourself. — Edward O. Thorp

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. — Albert Einstein

If you look over a creative person’s shoulder, he will stop doing great work. — Bernard Arnault

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. — Bob Schieffer

Paddle your own canoe. — American Proverbs

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself. — Logan Paul

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More Independence Quotes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. — Henry Ford

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young. — John Dewey

The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers — Lev S. Vygotsky

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. — Rick Ross

You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . . — Kwame Nkrumah

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. — Nelson Mandela

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home. — Adeline Yen Mah

Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it. — Paulo Freire

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. — Maria Montessori

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world. — James Connolly

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic. — Constance Markievicz

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. — King George III

In Conclusion

Quotes about independence also recognize the struggles and challenges that come with being independent. They emphasize the need for perseverance and determination. They remind us that independence is not always easy, but it is worth it. These quotes encourage individuals to push through obstacles, overcome adversity, and continue to grow and develop on their own terms. They remind us that independence is not a destination, but rather an ongoing journey of self-discovery and personal growth. These quotes serve as a reminder that independence is a fundamental human right and should be cherished and celebrated.

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