Quotes about Independence
It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
— Sean Covey
He who is brave is free.
— Seneca
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
— Erica Jong
If you love something, set it free.
— Abraham Lincoln
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
— Ayn Rand
Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
— Ayn Rand
My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...
— Ayn Rand
This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
— Ayn Rand
No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.
— Ayn Rand
if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.
— Ayn Rand