Maria Montessori Quotes

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

I want to be free to do what I right for me.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.