Quotes About Autonomy

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don't.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

That government is best which governs least.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.