Quotes about Autonomy
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
- Walt Whitman
The best place to get help is from yourself.
- Epictetus
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
- Lewis Carroll
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
- Walt Disney
I will not serve"—
- Peter Kreeft
You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.
- David Jeremiah
But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.
- Craig Groeschel
Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.
- Lisa Wingate
Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.
- Lisa Wingate
Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.
- Lisa Wingate
Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.
- Lisa Wingate
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln