“The best protection any woman can have is courage.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Independence Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · INDEPENDENCE
Independence Quotes
Read the best independence quotes on freedom, self-reliance and nationhood from Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, Bhagat Singh, Ambedkar, Emerson, Mill and more.
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
Booker T. Washington
WorkDignity
“He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.”
Lao Tzu
Self MasteryStrength
“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
Marcus Aurelius
Self RelianceCharacter
“Self-help is the best help.”
Aesop
Self RelianceShort Quotes
“Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.”
Hesiod
Hard WorkDignity
“Those who live by the labour of their own hands never beg, nor turn away anyone who begs of them.”
Thiruvalluvar
Self RelianceGenerosity
“Even if it is only water for a cow, there is nothing more shameful for the tongue than begging.”
Thiruvalluvar
Self RespectDignity
“If the Creator of the world decreed that some should live by begging, may he too wander and perish.”
Thiruvalluvar
DignityJustice
“Your own hand is your best helper.”
Hindi Proverb
Self RelianceShort Quotes
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Proverb
Self RelianceTeaching
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
African Proverb
Inner StrengthUnity
“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
Richard Henry Lee
American IndependenceHistory
“The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”
John Adams
American IndependenceHistory
“A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.”
Simon Bolivar
FreedomLatin America
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”
Marquis de Lafayette
LibertyVictory
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
Jose Marti
LibertyHonesty
“When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”
Robert Emmet
IrelandPatriotism
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom, for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
Declaration of Arbroath
ScotlandFreedom
“Freedom or death.”
Motto of the Greek War of Independence
CourageShort Quotes
“We face neither East nor West; we face forward.”
Kwame Nkrumah
AfricaProgress
“For every man shall bear his own burden.”
The Bible (Galatians 6:5)
ResponsibilitySelf Reliance
“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
The Bible (Galatians 6:4)
Self WorthWork
“Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, that ye may have lack of nothing.”
The Bible (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12)
Hard WorkSelf Reliance
“If any would not work, neither should he eat.”
The Bible (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
WorkResponsibility