Quotes About Autonomy

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Nothing about us without us.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

There are no have-to's, just choices

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

I like it that we all get to choose differently.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.