Quotes About Autonomy

I am the captain of my soul.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

The content of your # character is your # choice.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

In the end you have only you.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

If you cannot bless yourself, then nobody can bless you.

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

When you are alone you are all your own.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.