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

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

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

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.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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

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