Tom Steyer Quotes

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Does our hand show in this?

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

We create our own destiny.

You can only control so much.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Fate is for losers.

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

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.