Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Independence

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes (384–322 BCE) Greek Statesman, Orator

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

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 (1759–97) English Writer, Feminist

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 (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Brigham Young (1801–77) American Mormon Leader

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
Bill Clinton (b.1946) American Head of State, Lawyer, Public Speaker

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

Let me listen to myself and not to them.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer

This gives force to the strong—that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The moral progression of a people can scarcely begin till they are independent.
James Martineau (1805–1900) English Philosopher, Religious Leader

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
John Cage (1912–92) American Composer

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Epicurus (c.341–270 BCE) Greek Philosopher

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.
John Adams (1735–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) Lithuanian-American Anarchist, Feminist

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian Playwright

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

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 (1817–62) American Philosopher

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather (1873–1947) American Novelist, Writer

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Unknown

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

The word independence is united to the ideas of dignity and virtue; the word dependence, to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British Philosopher, Economist

You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep (b.1949) American Actor

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