Quotes about Self-determination
God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.
— Margaret Atwood
No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.
— Michael Hyatt
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
— Thomas Jefferson
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
— John F. Kennedy
Choice is the strongest principle of growth.
— George Eliot
Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.
— Aristotle
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
— John Milton
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
— John Milton
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
— Emily Bronte
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
— Ayn Rand
I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
— Ayn Rand