Quotes About Autonomy

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Authentic success is living by your own lights.