The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, then do it.

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

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

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

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

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

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

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.

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.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Action expresses priorities.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.