Self Determination Quotes

"As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "Do not go with the flow. Be the flow." "We are our choices." "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." "I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness." "We got to have money. Lots of money. In fact, I like to think of it as fuck you money, because that's exactly what you say when somebody tells you to do what you don't want to do" "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." "You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want" "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." "You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you" "I guess destiny isn't the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves" "No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body." "Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time." "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." "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." "When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me." "You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!"