Quotes About Autonomy

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.