Self Determination Quotes
Most popular self-determination quotes
![In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled. - Max Lucado quote.](/img/q/22/1822A-in-the-treatment-of-anxiety-a-proper-understanding-sovereignty-is-max-lucado.png)
In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.
![The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear. - Max Lucado quote.](/img/q/23/1823A-the-formula-is-simple-perceived-control-creates-calm-lack-control-max-lucado.png)
The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.
![Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth. - Gautama Buddha quote.](/img/q/37/11437A-be-a-lamp-to-yourself-be-your-own-confidence-hold-buddha.png)
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.
![My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate. - John H. Glenn, Jr. quote.](/img/q/08/14008A-my-view-is-that-to-sit-back-let-fate-play-john-h-glenn-jr.png)
My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
![We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, and meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. - Henry David Thoreau quote.](/img/q/26/27026A-we-are-all-sculptors-and-painters-our-material-is-our-henry-david-thoreau.png)
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, and meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
![A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen quote.](/img/q/84/32984A-a-man-sooner-or-later-discovers-that-he-is-master-james-allen.png)
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
![Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. - Louis L'Amour quote.](/img/q/70/39470A-up-to-a-point-a-mans-life-is-shaped-by-louis-lamour.png)
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.
Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.
Pray to God for a good harvest, but don't stop hoeing.
![The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. - Swami Vivekananda quote.](/img/q/44/52744A-the-vedanta-recognizes-no-sin-it-only-recognizes-error-greatest-swami-vivekananda.png)
The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
![You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius quote.](/img/q/61/52761A-you-have-power-over-your-mind-not-outside-events-realize-marcus-aurelius.png)
You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.