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Quotes about Autonomy

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
— Brian Tracy
You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called 'Your Life' and you can change the play anytime.
— Mensah Oteh
To be happy you need to take charge of your life by choosing to live in a beautiful state always because others might not have a plan for you.
— Mensah Oteh
I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
— Sam Walton
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
— John Adams
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
— John Maxwell
And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, and dared to try what he was able to do.
— John Calvin
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
— WP Kinsella
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
— Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
— Ronald Reagan