It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

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

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

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.

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.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.