No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. — Theodore Roosevelt
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel. — Sonia Choquette
When you preserve a person’s autonomy by clearly giving them permission to say 'No' to your ideas, the emotions calm, the effectiveness of the decisions go up, and the other party can really look at your proposal. — Chris Voss
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. — Charles Krauthammer
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody. — U.G. Krishnamurti
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. — Elizabeth Strout
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist! — Pope Leo X
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents. — Gary Larson
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions. — William O. Douglas
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. — Jello Biafra
Permission Quotes
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented. — Mas Oyama
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission — Grace Hopper
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
When you fall in love with the process rather than the end product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. — James Clear
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story — Iyanla Vanzant
The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one – which means you have permission to stop engaging in it. — Oliver Burkeman
Learn to say No without explaining yourself.
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. — James Clear
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. — Os Guinness
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. — Thomas Jefferson
Asking Permission Quotes
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. — Tim Berners-Lee
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. — Unknown
The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission. — Kerry James Marshall
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie! — Kevin Hart
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. — Joseph Sobran
Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them. — Gayle Rubin
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. — Grace Hopper
Give Yourself Permission Quotes
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. — Price Pritchett
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. — Joy Page
If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. — Jay Baer
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding. — James K. A. Smith
Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. — Greg McKeown
Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities — Danica Patrick
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future. — Beverly Engel
It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice. — Kris Carr
When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things. — Lauren Fleshman
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. — Pat Riley
Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are. — Caroline Myss
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. — Prince
It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feeling toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world. — Mahesh Bhatt
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. — Edward Burnett Tylor
Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission. — Rick Warren
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
You can't rock the boat without being told you're off your rocker. Entrepreneurs' greatest asset is their contrarian way of thinking, their tendency to zig when others zag, to go in a new direction. But many people don't give themselves permission to get going for fear that they will be called crazy. I say not only is crazy a compliment, but if you're not called crazy when you start something new, then you're not thinking big enough! — Linda Rottenberg
Give yourself permission to do something extraordinary and amazing on planet earth. Acknowledge that you have and can do whatever it takes. You would not be given true and inspiring dream without the potential to fulfill it. Listen to the wisdom of your heart and then use the sound reason of your mind to strategize and plan out the life you truly desire and deserve. — John Frederick Demartini
Nothing can be done to you without your permission. You are under contract at every level. With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity. This is your world. — Bryant H. McGill
Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties. — Frank Zappa
My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as seen from a moving jet: it's disappearing over the horizon with or without your permission. — Frank Schaeffer
If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop. — Mallory Ortberg
Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission — Ricky Gervais
To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place. — Rick Welts
In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission. — Michael Schur
Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission. — Zig Ziglar
Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission." — Rita Zahara
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children. — Sam Levenson
High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain. — Anne Applebaum
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic. — Christopher Hitchens
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data carefully researched, Sheryl Sandberg reminds women that they have to believe in themselves and reach for opportunities. More women than men may need that advice, but I'd bet that both genders would profit from this very well-done book — Marjorie Scardino
Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission. — Emmanuel Jal
People cannot hurt you without your permission. — Mahatma Gandhi
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting adventures, and certainly a lot of them sexual, than ever I've experienced. But in a sense, what you do with an alter ego, you give them all sorts of permissions and licences which you know you'll never be able to embrace in your real life. — Peter Greenaway
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated. — Peter Lynch
It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission. — Sara Zarr
...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission. — Kristin Cashore
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission. — Pink
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