Quotes about Self-determination
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Circumstance does not make the man;
- James Allen
So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.
- James Allen
No power, no event, no circumstance, can compel a man to evil and unhappiness. He himself is his own compeller. He thinks and acts by his own volition. No being, however wise and great--not even the Supreme--can make him good and happy. He himself must choose the good, and thereby find the happy.
- James Allen
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By
- James Allen
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
- Ben Stein
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
- Edith Wharton
Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.
- Bob Marley
Only the man who says no is free
- Herman Melville
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
- Aristotle
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
- Calvin Coolidge