Independence Quotes

"Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me."

- Woody Guthrie

"I’d rather wear flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck. I don’t want to earn a living I want to live."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you want to be free, be free. Cause there are a million things to be."

- Cat Stevens

"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself."

- Gautama Buddha

"I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution."

- John Gierach

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Don't be trapped in someone else's dream."

- BTS V

"Independence Day, July 4th, or as I know it: Out with the British day!"

- Steven Magee

"Yesterday the greatest Question was decided, which ever was de­bated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was or will be decided among Men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony that these united Colonies, are, and of right ought to be free and independent States."

- John Adams

"I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist."

- ASAP Rocky

"Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case."

- Erin Morgenstern

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

"The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own."

- Michel de Montaigne

"I’m not the girl you’re taking home. I keep dancing on my own."

- Robyn

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known."

- Green Day

"They judge me before they even know me. That’s why I’m better off alone."

- Shrek

"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

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

- William P. Douglas

"I’m not letting anyone tell me where to go, what to do, and even who to marry. There will never be a king like me."

- Simba

"Never let anyone put you in a box or tell you what you can do. Make sure you paint your own picture and go your own path, and continue to think outside the box."

- Magic Johnson

"Growing up means learning how to do things by myself, and that’s pretty cool."

- Bluey

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

"A man and his boat do not need to be justified."

"Born to roam, bound by nothing."

"I Am Not Afraid to Walk This World Alone"