Our destiny is largely in our hands.

We are the masters of our fate.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.

We are our own fates. Our deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.

We create our fate everyday

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Taking the destiny of our country in our own hands meant, among other things, making a great effort to forge a national identity based on a common resolve and unity of purpose and action as well as set for ourselves higher standards of equality, justice and opportunity for all our people irrespective of colour, race, ethnic or place of origin.

We’re going to have to dig deep into our souls, confront our own self-doubt, and recognize that our destiny is in our hands – that our future is what we make of it. So let’s build the future we all know is possible. Let’s prove to our children that they really can reach for their dreams.

We are our choices.

Nevermore
Let the great interests of the State depend
Upon the thousand chances that may sway
A piece of human frailty; swear to me
That ye will seek hereafter in yourselves
The means of sovereignty.

we're responsible for our own lives.

We're born dying but we're compelled to fancy our chances.