Alfred Doblin Quotes

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

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

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.