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.
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“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“No one is coming to save you. You can't have an ideal partner without working towards your ideal self.”
“It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
“Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.”
“He wasn't born an athlete. He made himself one.”
“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.”
“He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.”
“Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got.”
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We alone must walk the path.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
“Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work”
“It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
“It's not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.”
“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
“Don't wait for permission to build your destiny”
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Nothing can bring you success but yourself.”
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
“Decide who you want to be, and then do that work.”
“Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
“You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.”
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“What you are is what you have been. Who you will be is what you do now.”
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”
“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
“Life doesn't happen to you. You happen to life.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“Anything man can imagine, man can make real.”
“It's choice, not chance that determines your destiny.”
“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.”
“By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.”
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
“Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.”
“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take.”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
“The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.”
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“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.”
“We design our lives through the power of choices.”
“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.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”
“If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want.”
“You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”
“I am the creator of history and the one who experiences it.”
“Be the man you wish your father was.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“Life is drawing without an eraser.”
“Your identity should come from your imagined future, not your past.”
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.”
“It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
“I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
“To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.”
“Stop talking about other people. It's a distraction from owning and changing your own life.”
“God helps those that help themselves.”
“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.”
“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”
“Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.”
“A man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.”
“To live your greatest life, you must first become a leader within yourself. Take charge of your life, begin attracting and manifesting all that you desire in life.”
“Your past does not equal your future.”
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
“We all walk in the dark, and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.”
“A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.”
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
“It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.”
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
