Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

If you really wish to be independent and make your own judgements about everything important, it is difficult to be a good team player —because a team has different criteria for making judgements about an issue.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

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

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

I'm in control of my life.

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

I do not like to be told what to do, but in the end, I take my own decisions.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

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.

If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance.

Take advice, but don't take orders.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

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.

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