Independence Quotes

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I'd hate that." "It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone." "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." "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn" "Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And stay." "Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks. Do what you have to do, for you." "My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving." "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free." "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." "I don’t have to be what you want me to be." "I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself." "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." "Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self." "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." "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." "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." "Either give me more wine or leave me alone." "It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."