Quotes About Autonomy

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dont be a woman that can manage multiple men without them knowing.. be a woman that knows she couldnt be managed by a man.

No women shall allow herself to indulge in an unhealthy relationship just to feel loved for that moment.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I dont think a man can define you. You have to own that.

Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.