Being single Quote by Mark Twain

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and…

— Jeremy Bentham

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

— Anonymous

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no…

— Ayn Rand

“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within , not without : to follow one's own path,…

— Nicholas Tharcher

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can…

— Ayn Rand

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

— Alfie Kohn

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t…

— Ayn Rand

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

— Jorja Smith

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

— Nicholas Lore

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in…

— P. T. Barnum

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of…

— William Shenstone