Maria Montessori Quotes

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 make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please …. All history is the record of man’s signal failure to thwart his destiny.

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

Only you can control your future.

Fate is for losers.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

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.

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

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

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

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

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

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

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

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.

Diminish the influence of fate

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

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

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.