Judith Guest Quotes

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I just love to be able to be in control of my life.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I have lived life on my own terms.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

I want to live life on my own terms.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Freedom is control in your own life.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.