autonomous decision Quotes

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

Solutions aren't going to come out of Washington, but leadership can.

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

Better to leave before someone else has the idea of sending you away.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.