Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

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

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

Does our hand show in this?

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

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

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.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

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.'

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

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

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Fate is for losers.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

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

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road