Independence Quotes

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them."

- Joubert Botha

"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."

- William Hazlitt

"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."

- A.A. Milne

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Call me Ishmael."

- Herman Melville

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

- Charlotte Brontë

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

- Bruce Lee

"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on Earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."

- Susan B. Anthony

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before."

- Albert Einstein

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."

- Ralph Charell

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."

- Rachel Wolchin

"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule."

- Kelly Clarkson

"I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before."

- Albert Einstein

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

- Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is ours, we live it our way."

- Metallica

"Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself."

- Ryan Holmes

"Making the decision to not follow a system or someone else’s rules has allowed me to really dig into what my own strengths and gifts are without spending time feeling jaded or wasteful."

- Ishita Gupta

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."

- Marva Collins

"“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”"

- Dr. Seuss

"Travelling the open road is my idea of freedom."

"The greatest freedom is to be who you are and to travel where your heart desires."

"Embrace the freedom of solo travel and let the world be your playground."

"The world is yours to explore, and there's no better companion than yourself."