Quotes about Self determination

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It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly s — Coco Chanel
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither exp — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it s — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or som — Frank Zappa
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but de — Harvey Fierstein
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magi — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, — Joss Whedon
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. — Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most p — Robert T. Kiyosaki
The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tehyi Hsieh
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It take — Paul Auster, Moon Palace
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all t — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in — Anne Frank
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturin — Maya Angelou
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't l — Leo Buscaglia