Quotes about Self-determination

Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

decided years ago, as a teenager, that nobody has the liberty to control my rights because my rights are God-given and inherent. Some people are amazed at my outlook. A black preacher came up to me one time and said, "Man, you're a different kind of black man." I said, "No, I am in control of whose opinions are important." There is a significant difference between demanding one's rights from someone and displaying the rights one already possesses.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Don't let other's say That road is better or That route is easier. The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

We are the masters of our fate.