Quotes about Autonomy
The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and
— John Wooden
Be true to yourself. You know what's right. Don't let someone else decide for you.
— John Wooden
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
— Jimmy Johnson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
— Wayne Dyer
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
— Albert Ellis
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.
— Anne Frank
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Cicero
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
— Margaret Atwood
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
— Fannie Lou Hamer