Self Determination Quotes

Self Determination Quote of the day

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Let every man be master of his time.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Freedom is self-determination.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.