Heraclitus Quotes

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

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

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Character is fate.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Fate is for losers.

A man's fate is his own temper.

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

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.