Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

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

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

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

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

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

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

You can only control your own destiny.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my 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 are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

You are the Master of your own Destiny

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

You shape your own destiny.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

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

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.