Quotes About Autonomy

To dictate self-interests than mutual, cannot surpass and prevail, upon one who stays self-determined.

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

Like hungry chickens, when we cannot be fed what we need, we feed ourselves what we can find.

Spark asks whether men or women are in the driver's seat and whether the power to choose one's destroyer is women's only form of self-assertion.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

There are no have-to's, just choices

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

It's your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

Actually, when you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people's freedom.

In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.