Joseph Hall Quotes

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

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.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I enjoy making the decisions.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

I own my own time.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Freedom is from within.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

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.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.