Temple Grandin Quotes

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the world, getting old enough to be on my own. And today we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude, if I had been afraid to be on my own.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I work hard and support myself.

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I really wanted to work and become independent.