Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Independence Quotes
EffortIndependenceProblem SolvingSelf Reliance Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
HappinessIndependenceSelf ReflectionSolitude I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
IndependenceIndividualitySelf-MotivationSelf Reliance I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
IndependenceInfluenceLifestyleSelf-awarenessTemptation Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
CourageIndependenceNonconformityResistance It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
AutonomyIndependencePersonal ResponsibilityPlanningSelf-Determination If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
IdentityIndependencePerceptionRebellionYouth When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
IndependenceLearningMotivationPersonal GrowthSelf-education There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
DistributionIndependenceInnovationLegacy ArtistsMusic Industry With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
CreativityIndependenceObservationPersonal GrowthSelf-education I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
BeautyIndependenceSelf-careSelf-SufficiencySimplicity All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
GrowthIndependenceLearningSelf Reliance Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
ConfidenceIndependenceProfessionalismSelf-awarenessSelf Respect If Ferrari wanted me, they would have approached me. I want to work with people who want me. If they don't want me, it is no problem.
CreativityIndependenceInnovationNiche MarketsStorytelling Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
AmbitionCreativityDeterminationIndependence They let me do my diploma from home, but I always knew I was destined to do something creative, so I didn't care.
IndependenceIntimacyMarriagePersonal GrowthRelationships Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
CreativityEducationHumorIndependenceSelf-Expression It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
AmbitionCreativityIndependenceRebellionSelf-Determination Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
ConfidenceDeterminationFreedom From JudgmentIndependenceSelf Reliance I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'
BelongingIndependenceNonconformityRejection Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
CuriosityGrowthIndependenceLearningPerseverance As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
HappinessIndependencePrideSelf Reliance I know my dad's proud that I've done it on my own, and I'm happy with that.