Own Your Destiny Quotes

Destiny is not something that happens to you; it is something you build.  The man who takes the wheel stops waiting for life to improve on its own.  This Character path holds history's strongest quotes on choice, control, and self-determination.  Scroll through and put them to work.
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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We all walk in the dark, and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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He wasn't born an athlete. He made himself one.
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Your life only gets better when you get better.
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We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Stop talking about other people. It's a distraction from owning and changing your own life.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
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No one is coming to save you. You can't have an ideal partner without working towards your ideal self.
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
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You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
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To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We alone must walk the path.
Buddha
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God helps those that help themselves.
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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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It's choice, not chance that determines your destiny.
Unknown
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Life doesn't happen to you. You happen to life.
Unknown
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I am the creator of history and the one who experiences it.
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Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
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What you are is what you have been. Who you will be is what you do now.
Buddha
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A man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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It's not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
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It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
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It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
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A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.
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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
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We design our lives through the power of choices.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Greatness is not achieved when the results are attained, but long before that, when an individual makes the choice to do what it takes to become great.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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