Quotes About Autonomy

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so.

Maybe you couldn't ever owe somebody your life, not really. You couldn't let anyone else decide what you did with it. You had to live it yourself, as truly as you could.

I do not know," said Dr Quick, "It is a blow to my vanity to consider the possibility that I am nothing but a bundle of thoughts, feelings and memories, given life by somebody else's mind. But then again, so is a book.

Who am I? The shell-selling Lace girl, the attendant of Lady Arilou, Mother Govrie's other daughter, the thing of dust, the victim, the revenger, the diplomat, the crowd-witch, the killer, the rescuer, the pirate? I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

The only power you have is the word no.

For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can't make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.

God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

You must strive for individuality!! Got that?! Strive!

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

The minute you let other people label you, you let them take away your power.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

J'suis pas allée bosser ce matin... J'crois pas que j'irai demain. Prenons le contrôle de nos vies et vivons pour jouir, non pour souffrir.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

The key point is that independence of thought is demanded of all directors when on a board.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny

Decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame…you alone are responsible for the quality of it.