True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. — Brigham Young
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
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams
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
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann
The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve. — Monty Roberts
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make — Stephen Covey
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
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Short True Independence Quotes
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
Sanitation is more important than Independence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is self-determination. — Baruch Spinoza
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources. — Jim Rohn
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes
True Independence Image Quotes
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
What Is 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
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
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
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
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
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent. — Ferdinand De Saussure
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. — David Crystal
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all. — Norman Cousins
What I love about YouTube is that you don't need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back. — Jake Paul
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. — Jim Rohn
Independence And Freedom Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
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
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
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
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
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
Political Independence Quotes
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
True love has a habit of coming back.
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
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
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
Economic Independence Quotes
If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon
Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn't require the bankers. — Max Keiser
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders. — Liz Truss
True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated
At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent . — Raila Odinga
Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency. — Liz Truss
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States! — George W. Malone
A friend is not a true friend unless he protects his friend in his misfortune, in his absence, and at his death.
Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright, shining lie. — Pat Buchanan
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector. — Edward Mazria
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. — Crystal Eastman
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
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
True love is trust.
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
True Freedom Quotes
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being. — Pope John Paul II
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. — Osho
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov
I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be. — Elizabeth Blackwell
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave. — Abraham Isaac Kook
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. — Eckhart Tolle
The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. — Osho
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
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 whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. — Noam Chomsky
In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
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
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence. — Maria Montessori
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife — Kurt Gödel
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
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
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
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
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel
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
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
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
Real Freedom Quotes
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like. — Swami Vivekananda
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. — Toni Morrison
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. — Mario Vargas Llosa
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself. — Lewis B. Smedes
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. — Rollo May
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
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules. — David Elkind
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
Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them. — Catherine Ponder
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. — Voltaire
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. — Stephen Covey
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature. — Susan B. Anthony
... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around. — Suze Orman
I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer. — Liu Xia
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. — Fred Rogers
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. — Herbert Read
True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people. — Y. C. James Yen
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way. — Miles Davis
While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach. — Albert Einstein
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. — Phillips Brooks
The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity. — Howard Mumford Jones
Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them. — Joan Frank
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. — Maurice Saatchi
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa. — Buddha
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. I still don't feel like I've been part of the stereotypical Hollywood system. — Vincent Cassel
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker
The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think. — Sir Humphrey Davy
Key relationships can become threatened when you start exploring your own path. This is true when it comes to relationships with parents, mentors, and bosses. It's not always true, but many times these important people in our lives feel threatened in some way by our independence from them. There is an inner conflict that comes with exploring your own voice. — Chip Espinoza
Of course such a failed state as Indonesia is fully supported by Western academia and the mass media, because it does what it is told to do: it became a huge, brainwashed country, which is now plundering and exporting its riches, while not even having a clue that many parts of the world are now fighting for true independence from Western tyranny, and for socialism. — Andre Vltchek
We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home. — Kellyanne Conway
It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions. — Noam Chomsky
I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation. — Torbjorn Tannsjo
After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it. — Vladimir Putin
Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so. — Dalai Lama
I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. — David Cameron
I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true. — Bernie Sanders
Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence. — Stephen Covey
The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind it, which isn't necessarily true with indie movies, just by the nature of it being an independent film. — Jamie Linden
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