Quotes about Self-determination
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
— George Eliot
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
— Samuel Rutherford
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
— Stephen Covey
Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself
— Norman Vincent Peale
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
— Stephen Covey
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
— Napoleon Hill
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
— Ayn Rand
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
— James Allen