1. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.-Brigham Young
2. Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.-Sherry Argov
3. Independence …. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.-Mark Twain
4. I am lord of myself, accountable to none.-Benjamin Franklin
5. 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
6. Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.-George Bernard Shaw
7. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.-Coco Chanel
8. I’d rather die my way than live yours.-Lauren Oliver
9. To find yourself, think for yourself.-Socrates
10. 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
11. 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
12. Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.-Samuel Butler
13. Rule your mind or it will rule you.-Horace
14. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.-Albert Camus
15. The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.-Steve Schmidt
16. He who defines duty for himself is his own master.-Dick Cheatham
17. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.-Madonna
18. There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.-Tryon Edwards
19. Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.-Idries Shah
20. You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.-Mandy Hale
21. Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.-Ibn Taymiyyah
22. Never depend on anyone to make you happy….You are responsible for your own happiness.-Rashida Rowe
23. Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.-Jim Rohn
24. People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.-Emma Goldman
25. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.-Abraham Lincoln
26. Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.-George Orwell
27. A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.-Seneca
28. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.-Wayne Dyer
29. Independence is happiness.-Susan B. Anthony