Quotes About Autonomy

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Do for yourself or do without.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Independence is happiness.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Every man paddles his own canoe.