Quotes about Autonomy
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
— Pema Chodron
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
— Ronald Reagan
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Ronald Reagan
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
— Stephen Covey
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
— Stephen Covey
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
— Epictetus
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
— Nikolai Berdyaev