Independence Quotes

"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone." "The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me" "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." "Either give me more wine or leave me alone." "I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way—you were either in my way or out of it." "My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost." "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." "Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self." "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." "I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself." "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." "I don’t have to be what you want me to be." "Two hand philosophy. If I can’t earn it, then I don’t want it. My hands might be calloused up and scarred up with a knuckle or two missing (poor punching form;) but they’re mine and serve as my daily anchors for puttin’ in the work." "Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free."