Own Your Destiny Quotes
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“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.”
“Be the man you wish your father was.”
“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.”
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”
“Every day is a new opportunity to create the life you desire. Embrace it with gratitude.”
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“Life doesn't happen to you. You happen to life.”
“Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”
“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.”
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.”
“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
“To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.”
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
“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.”
“A man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“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.”
“Decide who you want to be, and then do that work.”
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.”
“I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”
“We design our lives through the power of choices.”
“Be forgiving with your past self. Be strict with your present self. Be flexible with your future self.”
“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”
“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”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“Don’t wait for permission to build your destiny”
“A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.”
“Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.”
“Nothing can bring you success but yourself.”
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“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.”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”
“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.”
“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.”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We alone must walk the path.”
“Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care; the only thing lacking is freedom.”
“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”
“You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”
“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.”
“It's choice, not chance that determines your destiny.”
“I am the creator of history and the one who experiences it.”
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
“He wasn't born an athlete. He made himself one.”
“No one is coming to save you. You can't have an ideal partner without working towards your ideal self.”
“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”
“The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.”
“Anything man can imagine, man can make real.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“He who controls the present controls the past; he who controls the past controls the future.”
“What you are is what you have been. Who you will be is what you do now.”
“Power is not given to you. You have to take it.”
“He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.”
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
“Life is drawing without an eraser.”
“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.”
“Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got.”
“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 highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
“God helps those that help themselves.”
“We all walk in the dark, and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.”
“You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.”
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
“I always knew I wanted to be in charge of my own destiny”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
“It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
“It's not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
“Stop talking about other people. It's a distraction from owning and changing your own life.”
“Your past does not equal your future.”
“Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.”
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
“It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
