69 Quotes Tagged: self-determination

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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 expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand — they only. Know this at last.

Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.

I'm single because I was born that way.