Dean Koontz Quotes

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

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

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

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.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

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

Fate is for losers.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

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

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

Does our hand show in this?

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

People are decisions and actions.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

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

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

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.