Welcome to Independent Quotes, a curated collection of insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking quotes that celebrate the spirit of independence in various aspects of life. Independence is a fundamental human desire, encompassing autonomy, freedom, and self-reliance. Throughout history, individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields have articulated powerful sentiments about the importance of independence, whether it be in thought, action, or belief.
In this compilation, you’ll encounter quotes from notable figures spanning literature, politics, philosophy, and more, each offering a unique perspective on what it means to embrace independence. These words serve as reminders of the inherent value in charting one’s own course, breaking free from constraints, and embracing the journey of self-discovery. Whether you seek motivation, reflection, or simply a moment of inspiration, these quotes are sure to resonate with those who cherish the pursuit of independence and the courage to forge their own path. Explore the wisdom encapsulated in these timeless words and let them ignite your own journey towards independence and self-fulfillment.
Now, without further ado, delve into the collection of Independent Quotes below. Feel free to copy them, pair them with images, or unleash your creativity by enhancing them with stylish fonts. Let these quotes serve as beacons of empowerment and encouragement as you navigate the boundless possibilities that come with embracing independence.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. Nicolas Chamfort
The world is independent of my will. Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces – of course it could – but what sort of forces would they be? Philip Hammond
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens. Samuel Gompers
I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state. Benjamin Netanyahu
How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period! Keith Barry
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James Baldwin
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. Jim Rohn
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. Andrew Jackson
I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated. Travis Fimmel
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. Jack Levine
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. Kat Graham
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people. Nicole Scherzinger
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous. Beyonce Knowles
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman. Diane von Furstenberg
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness. Alex Grey
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. Margaret J. Wheatley
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. Dido Armstrong
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. Imran Khan
I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone. Adam Levine
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. Adlai Stevenson I
Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech. Ksenia Sobchak
It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. William Cobbett
Be sure of yourself, don’t let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy. Nicole Polizzi
Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline. Kevin McCarthy
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John D. Rockefeller
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. Benjamin Disraeli
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Maya Angelou
Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate. Max Keiser
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. Wayne Dyer
Here is the difference, nationalism has a certain connotation in Europe, which is not necessarily positive, but I think in Asia, nationalism is seen very much as a sort of natural corollary to economic progress, almost like you’re independent, you progress, you are prosperous and nationalism comes with all of that. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. Caroline Kennedy
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. Isabella Rossellini
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. Adriana Lima
I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. Jackie Robinson
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. Kjell Magne Bondevik
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. David Crystal
There’s no such thing as an independent person. Peter Jennings
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. Will Arnett
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham
Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it’s another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work. Hussein Chalayan
There’s always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there’s plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. Matt Groening
A mind cannot be independent of culture. Lev Vygotsky
I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic. Brett Kavanaugh
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis. Dennis C. Blair
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must. Jean-Claude Juncker
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. Joyce Meyer
People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not. Mark Manson
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support… autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice. Karen DeCrow
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence. Rigoberta Menchu
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: ‘You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.’ Mikhail Gorbachev
My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding. Craig Kelly
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. Milton Glaser
I was on ‘The Shield’ for a year before ‘Crash’ came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week. Michael Pena
My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions. Scott Borchetta
My late mother moved back to her parents’ homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found. Chrystia Freeland
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. Lou Henry Hoover
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications. Michael Shellenberger
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. Robert M. Pirsig
It is 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
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Susan Sontag
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment. C. V. Raman
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I’m independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I’m positive, I’m disciplined, I like my life in order, and I’m neat as a pin. Mary Tyler Moore
Acting never was about the money for me… Maybe in 10 years, I’ll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don’t have to make bad choices. I can be very picky. Emma Watson
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. B. R. Ambedkar
To think that you can – as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century – rule over another people for generations without having any consequences – it’s ridiculous. Ehud Barak
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be. Meghan Markle
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. Tom Ridge
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. Chauncey Depew
Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace. Cesare Beccaria
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. George Orwell
Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent – whether you use it or not. Priyanka Chopra
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. Milton Avery
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task. Mahatma Gandhi
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone. Anne Frank
I was raised a Democrat, and now I’m an Independent. Powers Boothe
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy
The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks. Emily Weiss
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Sigmund Freud
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. David Cameron
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. Norman Cousins
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. Betty Ford
I do not care whether you’re a Democrat or you’re a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren’t drafted. They enlisted, because they believe. Tommy Lasorda
To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India. Rajiv Gandhi
Taiwan is an independent sovereign country. Chen Shui-bian
Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that. Antonio Banderas
Genius is independent of situation. Charles Churchill
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges. Sandra Day O’Connor
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. H. P. Lovecraft
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. Camille Paglia
I’ve always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age. Timothee Chalamet