Michelle Kwan Quotes

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There are things one must do for oneself.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

All I've ever needed is myself.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.