Aesop Quotes

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

You shape your own destiny.

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.

You can take your destiny into your own hands.

We are the masters of our own universe.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

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

We are the creators of our own destiny.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

Who can control his fate?

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

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

All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.