Quotes about Self-determination

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.