Vera Brittain Quotes

We create our own destiny.

People make their own destinies.

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

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.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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

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 make our fortunes and we call them fate.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

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

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

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.

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

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

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

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

Man appoints, and God disappoints.