“For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.”

“Choices are the hinges of destiny”

Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet

“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

“A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.”

Barbara Jordan (1936–1996) American politician

“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you….”

Joshua Fernandez (1974) Malaysian film director

“But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.”

Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian

“Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

“The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.”

Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian

“We make destiny with every turn, every choice.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer