Quotes about Self-determination

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

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

You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.