Christen Press Quotes

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

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

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

You shape your own destiny.

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

Fate is for losers.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

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

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Take destiny in your own hands.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

People make their own destinies.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

The heart is its own Fate.

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