Quotes on Your Destiny

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Your will shall decide your destiny.

There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you... Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over.

What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity. Shrink from them and your life will be small, feel the fear and run to them anyway, and you life will be big. Life's just too short to play little.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.