Andre Malraux Quotes

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

One creates oneself.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

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

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

We create our own destiny.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

Every act is an act of self definition.