Quotes about Self-determination
I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny.
- Nelson Mandela
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
- Robert Frost
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
- Scott Moir
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
- William Wordsworth
I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.
- Shonda Rhimes
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
- Herbert Hoover
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
- Ronald Reagan
It's up to you. What you will, will be.
- Deepak Chopra
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
- Shirley Chisholm
We forge the chains we wear in life.
- Charles Dickens
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett