Independence Quotes - Page 39

• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

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• Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Rights, Different

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.337, Discovery House

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• The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

  Monty Roberts

  Mind, Desire, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Monty Roberts from Jul 04, 2015

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• I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.179, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Eye, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Earning It, Sweat

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.104, Read Books Ltd

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• All great enterprises are self-supporting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Enterprise, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Men, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius, Emperor, Retainers

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spirit, Action, Institutions

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, David M Gross

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• Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Long, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Anxiety, Free Spirit

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• Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Running, Children

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• A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

  Seneca the Younger

  Steps, Treatment, Stomach

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter CXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

  Josephine Tey

  Men, May, Captains

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• The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Military, War, Struggle

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• Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Knowledge, Know Yourself

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Destiny, Men, Civilization

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• Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Growth, United States, Looks

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.237

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• The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  W. H. Auden

  Dirty, Writing, Islands

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 22), 1962.

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• And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Effort, Mastery

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• Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Girl, Self, Ideas

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• I'll never
  Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
  As is a man were author of himself
  And knew no other kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Instinct

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 34

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• The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Self, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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