Quotes about Autonomy
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
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
- Ayn Rand
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
- Og Mandino
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
- William James
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
- Joyce Meyer