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Quotes about Self-determination

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
— Winston Churchill
Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
— Tony Robbins
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
— Jimmy Carter
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
— Ronald Reagan
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
— Earl Nightingale
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.
— Alice Hoffman
Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.
— Tony Robbins
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
— Max Lucado
You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
— Oprah Winfrey