Quotes about Independence

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.

capable woman you are and

who God's called you to be. You are an amazing woman. Don't lose sight of who you are because a man can't appreciate you.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.