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Quotes About Autonomy

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.
~ Waris Dirie
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
~ Epictetus
The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.
~ Marina Abramovic
When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.
~ Gary Sinise
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.
~ Marlee Matlin
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
~ James Brown
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
~ T. Harv Eker
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
~ Anson Jones
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
~ Ann Oakley
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance
~ Gustavus Franklin Swift
Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
~ Winslow Homer
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.
~ Charles Bukowski
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
~ Kurt Schwitters
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
~ Gilbert Parker
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
~ Melody Beattie
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.
~ Mary Cassatt
It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
~ Bill Watterson
I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.
~ Jim Otto
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
~ David Bowie
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
~ Albert Camus
Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
~ Yves Tanguy
Self Government won't work without self discipline.
~ Paul Harvey