39 Quotes About Controlling Your Own Destiny

Taking control of where you are heading requires having the right attitude. Here are some inspiring quotes about controlling your own destiny.

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!”

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”

“Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”

“Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.”

“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.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and it important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not.”

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.”

“Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.”

“I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.”

“I can’t control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There’s only now, there’s only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.”

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”

“If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.”

“If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.”

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“It’s choice–not chance–that determines your destiny.”

“Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.”

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”

“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you”

“Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.”

“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.”

“Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.”

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”

“We determine our destiny by the actions we take today.”

“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

“You can change things, you can make things better.”

If you don’t take control of your own life than someone else will.