Quotes about Self-determination
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man is man, and master of his fate.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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