Quotes about Self-determination

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

We can choose not to allow the choices and actions of someone else to dictate our own.

Outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially. You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.