Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. --William Jennings Bryan

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. --Orison S. Marder

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

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. --Lyndon B. Johnson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. --William Jennings Bryan