Voltaire Quotes

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands—a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

People make their own destinies.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

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.

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

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

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