Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

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

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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

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.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do...with no regrets.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.