Self Determination Quotes

Our lives teach us who we are. I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

~ Salman Rushdie

The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are learning to be an expert.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I dare travel on a destiny defined path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you fail, don’ quit.Try again, and again but with much enthusiasm and continuous effort.You will soon master the art and skills needed to succeed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You should persist long enough to conquer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have what it takes to get the work done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-determination is self-reliance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to conquer the obstacle to achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With self-discipline, self-determination and self-endurance you can achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find your niche and occupy it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can accomplish great things by God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You create the life you wish by your thoughts, speech and actions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be yourself and believe in your abilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be strong, be confident and be determined.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Golden possibilities exist in every adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to try again when you failure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every successful person had experience failure but they overcome with courage and adamant hope

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow anyone to stop you from pursuing your most cherished dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Eat like you love your body.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day, write a thankful note.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I work with great gladness for what I want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I see any difficulty as an adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...it is the most militant, most radical intervention anyone can make to not only speak of love, but to engage in the practice of love. For love as the foundation of all social movements for self-determination is the only way we create a world that domination and dominator thinking cannot destroy. Anytime we do the work of love we are doing the work of ending domination.

~ Bell Hooks

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

~ Doris Lessing

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

~ Doris Lessing

Younger woman says, “I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.”“Yes,” [older woman responds] “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

~ Doris Lessing

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

~ Sara Raasch