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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“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“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.”
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
“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.”
“Anything man can imagine, man can make real.”
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“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”
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”
“Don't wait for permission to build your destiny”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“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.”
“The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.”
“You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.”
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
“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.”
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.”
“Be the man you wish your father was.”
“Decide who you want to be, and then do that work.”
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
“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.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.”
“Your past does not equal your future.”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”
“Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.”
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“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.”
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
“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.”
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
“Life is drawing without an eraser.”
“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.”
“Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got.”
“I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”
“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.”
“It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.”
“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”
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