you have to decide your own self-worth versus letting others determine it.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Do not conform to the expectations others have of you, but forge your own path.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

Above all else, I want you to think for yourself, to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

[It's] not our decision to make. It's up to the people themselves.

Nobody ever told me,
I found out for myself,
You gotta believe in foolish miracles,
it's not how you play the game,
it's if you win or lose,
you can choose, don't confuse
Win or lose, it's up to you.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei

We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right