We Control Our Own Destiny Quotes

#1. All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Glenn Beck

#2. How arrogant are we to believe we're in control of anything, much less our own destiny. All we can do is pray for God's divine guidance and follow the path Home.

Robert Palasciano

#3. It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

Georgette Mosbacher

#4. The control of events has been taken out of our hands ... we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.

Frederick Douglass

#5. The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#6. We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

Joel Osteen

#7. I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

Alex Borstein

#8. I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

John C. Danforth

#9. How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

Billy Graham

#10. To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Tom Tancredo

#11. When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media.

Barack Obama

#12. The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Bobby Brown

#13. It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

Kathleen Hanna

#14. We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Thomas Szasz

#15. These recent weeks have taught me that I am not in control of my own destiny, and that powers much larger than I are at war in this world. I can only be faithful to the tasks set before me. The rest is out of my hands.

L.B. Graham

#16. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen

Stewart Stafford

#17. There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

Betty Friedan

#18. Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

Assata Shakur

#19. Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector.
One does, indeed [make] one's own destiny.
Therefore, control yourself
As a merchant does a fine horse.

Gautama Buddha

#20. If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

Anthony Horowitz