Elbert Hubbard Quotes

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.