Quotes about Self-determination
Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
- Stephen Covey
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.
- Les Brown
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
- Wayne Dyer
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
- Cicero
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
- Aldous Huxley
One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.
- George W. Bush
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
- Stephen Covey
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.