-I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.
-Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
-Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
-If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
-Fate is not quite as strange as it appears.
-What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
-Man’s character is his fate.
-Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
-Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
-Fate – everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens look for the good in it as it is there.
-Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour.
-Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
-Do not worry about the future for it is not yet come. Live each day in the present and make it beautiful.
-Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
-Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
-A true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
-Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
-Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
-Destiny has two ways of crushing us…. by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
-Each man is the architect of his own fate.
-Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
-It is a fundamental error to try to subject our own fate at call costs to our will. Our will is a function regulated by reflection; hence it is dependent on the quality of that reflection.
-When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make a lemonade.
-He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
-Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
-Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
-Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived ?
-There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
-The man of the past is alive in us today to a degree undreamt of before the war, and in the last analysis what is the fate of great nations but a summation of the psychic changes in individuals ?
-Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
-I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
-The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
-Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
