Self Determination Quotes

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We become what we want to be by consistently being what we w

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Richard G. Scott

Inspirational Self Determination Self Improvement Religious

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we sp

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Shmuley Boteach

Self Help Inspirational Self Determination

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

Alexandra Stoddard

Life Inspirational Self Determination

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide you

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

Life Self Determination Self Discovery

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Change Inspirational Self Determination

Let every man be master of his time.

Let every man be master of his time.

William Shakespeare

Life Time Control Self Determination

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are

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 magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Life Inspirational Self Determination Self Reliance Anticipation

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. F

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Courage Inspirational Self Determination Be Yourself Inspirational Life Courage To Be Oneself

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and re

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Inspirational Self Determination Self Awareness

The best way to predict your future is to create it

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Abraham Lincoln

Life Future Advice Self Determination

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

William Shakespeare

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselve

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Self Determination Timidity Self Responsibility

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the g

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

William Shakespeare

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LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had d

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Strength Independence Persuasion Determination Weakness Empowerment Judgment Self Determination Interference

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Self Determination Self Respect

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Satisfaction Self Determination

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the rig

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Self Determination Enterprise

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Love Marriage Duty Integrity Feelings Romance Affection Matrimony Self Determination Joy

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of cons

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Strength Independence Persuasion Weakness Empowerment Judgment Self Determination Interference