P. Chidambaram Quotes

You are the creator of your own destiny

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just choose to do it ourselves and not wait for someone else.

People make their own destinies.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.