Muriel Spark Quotes

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

I don't live on other people's terms.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

It's my life and I prefer choosing my path. I don't follow anyone else.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

I went my direction, my direction is whatever I want to go.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

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.

Freedom is control in your own life.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

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

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

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

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.