Quotes About Autonomy

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Never give up your power to another person.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

No one can give us power. If we aren't part of the process of taking it, we won't be strong enough to use it.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.