Self Determination Quotes

"When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me." "I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way—you were either in my way or out of it." "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" "I am a feminist, and what that means to me is to not be afraid of making decisions that affect my own life." "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people" "Success isn't something that happens to you; it happens because of you" "We write our lives indeed, but our efforts are spent making those lives livable" "Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are." "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game" "It is only in our decisions that we are important." "When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are" "A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "We have the ability to shape our own destiny"