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Quotes about Autonomy

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.
- Eugene Peterson
What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.
- Eugene Peterson
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.
- Ruth Westheimer
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
- Marianne Williamson
The inability to allow a talent to do what he feels is going to inhibit his production. Always.
- Arn Anderson
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
- Wayne Dyer
Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.
- Bill Johnson
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.
- Simon Sinek
There are certain things no one can do for you.
- Max Lucado