Quotes About Autonomy

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.

People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Never follow the crowd.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

A human being is a deciding being.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure