Quotes about Self-determination

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.