Anne Bronte Quotes

I should not rely on the goodness of heart of anybody.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

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.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I enjoy making the decisions.

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.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

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

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.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.