Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision.
Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.
Tags: choice decisions self-determination
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.
John GreenTags: self-determination satisfaction
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
Bryce CourtenayTags: be-yourself self-determination
To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me.
Robert K. MassieTags: intelligence marriage self-determination independence self-knowledge coming-of-age matrimony royalty catherine-the-great
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 BujoldTags: inspirational courage be-yourself courage-to-be-oneself self-determination inspirational-life
It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.
Rodolfo CostaTags: goals success persistence self-determination motivation action
There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will."
(Against Fortunatus)
Tags: free-will sin salvation self-determination
In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price.
You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
Tags: free-will judgment self-determination responsibility penance
Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée."
(L'Excuse à Ariste)
Tags: fame self-determination achievement reputation
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 questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.
Ellis PetersTags: life free-will freedom self-determination choices giving conduct-of-life
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