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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“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
“Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.”
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
“Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.”
“Your identity should come from your imagined future, not your past.”
“Where you are now in life is the sum of the decisions you’ve made.”
“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
“True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”
“While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable.”
“Age is no longer the primary factor that determines where you are on the map. Life is now less about how old you are and more about when you decide to live.”
“If we want our jobs to change, we have to change first.”
“If you don’t live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.”
“If you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the result won’t be pleasant.”
“Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.”
“Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.”
“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions.”
“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.”
“The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.”
“People are always waiting for something to happen before they change their lives. But they have it backward; when you change your life, big things are more likely to happen.”
“Until you can get so that you can rely upon yourself, you need not expect to succeed.”
“There’s nobody who cares more about you than you, and there’s nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.”
“Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.”
“The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.”
“The men who miss success have two general alibis: ”I’m not a genius” is one; the other, ”There aren’t the opportunities today there used to be.” Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.”
“There’s nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that’s outside your control.”
“Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.”
“Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them.”
“Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.”
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
“Don’t wait for it. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.”
“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
“If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”
“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
“It does not matter who you are today. The only thing that matters is who you want to become and the price you’re willing to pay to get there.”
“To achieve major success in life, you must accept 100% responsibility for your life and results. Nothing less will do.”
“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”
“We are required to live up to the potential with which we’ve each been blessed. I even suggest that failing to insist upon abundant amounts of success is somewhat unethical.”
“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.”
“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”
“You decide what your limits are, and you decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet.”
“You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren’t going to get where you want to go!”
“Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.”
“Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of cards. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.”
“The least regrettable way to live is on your own terms in your own way and for your own cause.”
“One person can change your life, that person is you.”
“Create your life rather than live it.”
“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
“I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.”
“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”
“The critical question is not whether you’ll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.”
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