Quotes About Autonomy

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Don't allow others to put a cap on you. Don't simply agree when someone draws your own finishing line. You're the captain of your destiny!!!

Be a master of yourself.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

Your dreams aren't made, or broken, by anyone but you.

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.