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.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.