Quotes About Autonomy

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

Stop waiting for someone else to run your life. Get into the driver's seat and choose your destination.

Never let others define you.

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish.

From all I learned about life, you can't lose yourself in others to discover yourself. You will get lost forever.

Do not expect anything from any one.

Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.

do for yourself, for no one else will

The best way to be you is to be yourself.