Vikram Seth Quotes

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

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

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

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

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

It's only too late if you don't start now.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

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

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'