Quotes About Autonomy

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Self-help is the best help

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

My life is not my own business.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.