Quotes about Autonomy

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.