Independence is very important when it comes to success. Many successful people focus on achieving greatness and success on their own. It is important to focus on your own yourself first; your goals and dreams can be achieved with self determination and self belief. Most people find success being independent when it comes to business, having your own plans and following your own plans can make you very successful.
- “I am lord of myself, accountable to none.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” – Brigham Young
- “I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” – Madonna
- “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
- “You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.” – Mandy Hale
- “Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” – Ibn Taymiyyah
- “Nobody gives you a chance… So you just have to stand on your own two feet and take them.” – Christon Henry
- “There’s nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.” – Jim Rohn
- “Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want.” – Stephen Breyer
- “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
- “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
- “All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” – John Locke
- “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- “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.” – P. Lovecraft
- “True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.” – Isabella Rossellini
- “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
- “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
- “This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.” – Olga Kurylenko
- “The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.” – Carol P. Christ
- “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Freedom means the opportunityto be what we never thought we would be.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
- “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner
- “Everything that is really great and inspiringis created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein
- “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” – Ayn Rand
- “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” – Margaret Atwood
- “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.” – Maya Angelou
