Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

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.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

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

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

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

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

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

People make their own destinies.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

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

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

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

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

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

You are the Master of your own Destiny

Diminish the influence of fate

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You shape your own destiny.

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

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.

Fate is for losers.

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.