Quotes About Autonomy

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.

I've always done YouTube myself: everything is written, edited, produced, and promoted by myself.

In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it's time to graduate to the next level. That's a tricky proposition for some players because it's difficult to assess your own progress.

I have never tried to impress anyone, including my parents.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it.

The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.