Independence Quotes

• To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.

  Jim Rohn

  Independent, Income, Self Help

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 23, 2016

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Independence is happiness.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Happiness, Women's Rights

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• Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Country, Freedom

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Rights of Man”, p.278, Broadview Press

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• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  Brigham Young

  Motivational, Freedom, Ethics

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• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Freedom, Anchors, Intellectual

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• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Beach, Islands, Honor

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• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Direct Action

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Selfish, Taken, Government

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

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• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Cogs, Needs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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  If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, 4th Of July, Blessing

  Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., 2 Aug. 1826

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• 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

  Life, Single, Blessing

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.608, Delphi Classics

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• The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational Life, Rights, People

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Honesty, Long

  Alexander Pope (1776). “Works”, p.128

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• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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