Quotes About Autonomy

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

No man may make another free.

My future is one I must make myself.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.

Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.