Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Our history is not our destiny.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

History need not be our destiny.

Nothing is inevitable in history.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

It is not too late to take another path.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.