Top Self Determination Quotes

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

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

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

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

Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.