Top 57 Independence Quotes

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Independence is something that many people take for granted. With that in mind, check out the top 57 independence quotes that you should know.

#57 – 50. Independence Quotes

57. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. – Michael Bassey Johnson

56. Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. – Idries Shah

55. It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing — that’s the Lord’s test. – Mahalia Jackson

54. All we ask is to be let alone. – Jefferson Davis

53. I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

52. Never depend on anyone to make you happy….You are responsible for your own happiness. – Rashida Rowe

51. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. – John F. Kennedy

50. If it is to be, it is up to me. – William H. Johnsen

#49 – 40. Independence Quotes

49. Independence …. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. – Mark Twain

48. Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want. – Stephen Breyer

47. Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus

46. Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Horace

45. The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. – Steve Schmidt

42. You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you, you must work out your own salvation. – Charles E. Popplestone

41. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. – Mandy Hale

40. Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved. – Elbert Hubbard

#39 – 30. Independence Quotes

39. God helps them that help themselves. – Proverb

38. Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success. – Samuel Butler

37. Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we’re talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do. – June Jordan

36. The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard

35. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. – Madonna

34. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

33. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence. – Albert Camus

32. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson

31. We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. – John Milton Cage

30. There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one’s self. – John Gay

#29 – 20. Independence Quotes

29. I’d rather die my way than live yours. – Lauren Oliver

28. The first of earthly blessings, independence. – Edward Gibbon

27. No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. – Willa Cather

26. Independence is a very subjective assessment. – P. Chidambaram

25. Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. – David Ben-Gurion

24. Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Vicktor Emil Frankl

23. There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven. – Tryon Edwards

22. The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

21. This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

#19 – 10. Independence Quotes

19. To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self. – Natalie Clifford Barney

18. The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. – Henrik Ibsen

17. To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates

16. He who defines duty for himself is his own master. – Dick Cheatham

15. Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. – Ibn Taymiyyah

14. No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. In the word of no master am I bound to believe. – Horace

12. No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes

11. I am lord of myself, accountable to none. – Benjamin Franklin

10. Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. – John Donne

#9 – 1. Independence Quotes

9. It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. – Olivia Wilde

8. You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life. – Mandy Hale

7. Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. – Sherry Argov

6. God loves to help him who strives to help himself. – Aeschylus

5. There is no one subsists by himself alone. – Owen Felltham

4. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

2. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us. – Sydney J. Harris

1. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right. – Brigham Young

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