Quotes about Autonomy
As you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence.
- Stephen Covey
No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
- Stephen Covey
It means more than merely taking initiative. It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
- Stephen Covey
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." If you decide
- Stephen Covey
We are responsible for our own effectiveness, for our own happiness, and ultimately, I would say, for most of our circumstances.
- Stephen Covey
They want other people to be the way they want them to be. They often want to clone them, and they surround themselves with "yes" people—people who won't challenge them, people who are weaker than they.
- Stephen Covey
But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.
- Stephen Covey
Our secret life is where we are able to tap into the power of the four human endowments: self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will.
- Stephen Covey
We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others, little by little we increase our strength until our ability to act is more powerful than any of the forces that act upon us.
- Stephen Covey
Effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence.
- Stephen Covey
No one can hurt you without your consent.
- Stephen Covey
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
- Eleanor Roosevelt