Quotes About Autonomy

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

Real people do what they want...not what they can.

If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

I can do whatever I want.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.