Top Self Determination Quotes

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a...

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

Materialism allows for a greater vision!

Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within.

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.

Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!

Your attitudes towards others affect what you think about yourself.

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

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

Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you.She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice be...

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of...

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in q...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother:...

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