Robert Kennedy Quotes

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

Diminish the influence of fate

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

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.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

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

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.