Jesse Owens Quotes

I can do whatever I want.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

You can't let nobody run your train.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.