Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

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

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn.

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

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 have to do this my way.

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 live on other people's terms.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I've always done things my way.

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.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

I don't run behind authority.