„I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.“

— Douglas Adams
„Against destiny I fulfilled my duty.Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.“
— Henry Ford
„I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.“
— Sophia Loren
„The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.“
— W. H. Auden