Quotes About Autonomy

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

Therefore, beware of everything that takes away your freedom. Know that it is dangerous, and avoid it by all the means in your power.

When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves

Thus the man that has practiced control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him.

Love never comes until there is freedom

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

Only dead fish follow the stream.

Besides, far better always to fend alone than with an uncertain ally.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.

But what about me? Who will I lean on? I guess this is what growing up really means, Grace. Standing on your own two feet and being your own mountain.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It's to escape all that - to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to by others.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It's to escape all that – to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.