go one's own way

present singular third person goes one's own way · participle present going one's own way · past went one's own way · participle past gone one's own way

1. idiomaticTo act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.

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   Why should she say, like a parrot, what her governess told her to, when there were birds and beasts and creeping things outside to study, and a library inside full of things really worth learning? So she went her own way, growing wistful and more lonely, and every day her big eyes grew wiser and fuller of secrets.

   1907, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Bruce Rogers, The Princess Pourquoi, Mifflin & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12