Quotes about Independence
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
— Ayn Rand
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
— Bill Johnson
Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.
— Bob Marley
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
— Thomas a Kempis
Only the man who says no is free
— Herman Melville
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
— Amy Grant
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
— Aristotle
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson