Nell Carter Quotes

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

It's my life and I prefer choosing my path. I don't follow anyone else.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

The disciplined are free.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

I don't live on other people's terms.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.