Quotes about Independence
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
— Dorothy Sayers
All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
— Sojourner Truth
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
— Henry David Thoreau
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
— JRR Tolkien
Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom
— Albert Einstein
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
— Seth Godin
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.
— Calvin Coolidge
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
— John Malkovich
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.
— Aristotle
We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.
— Keith Flint
If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.
— Dani Alves