Self Determination Quotes - Page 2

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

May the Lord increase your strength.

You have to choose your path.
You have to decide what you wish to do.
You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.

No matter how tough the situation, you still have to hang on.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

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.