Self Determination Quotes

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

Anything is possible. Dream! Reach out! Achieve!

You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.

When you walk through the darkness, God shall be your light!.

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.

Your willpower to achieve the goal ought to stronger than any obstacle.

If you can dream it, it is possible to achieve it.

Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality.

A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.

Time and space define the sacred moment.

I will sacrifice today for tomorrow.

Enjoy your youthful times and do the all the work you can.

Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand.

You ought to learn as best as you can.

Arise and pursue your dreams.

You can posses what you desire.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.