Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly. ~ Takashi Nagai

The fate is the common fate of all, into each life some rain must fall. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When fate’s got it in for you, there’s no limit to what you may have to put up with. ~ Georgette Heyer

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred, to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ~ Richard Rumbold

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. ~ William Alger

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. ~ Carl Jung

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often. ~ Charlton Heston

We create our fate every day. ~ Henry Miller

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate! ~ Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. ~ Marcel Marceau

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan

Fate keeps on happening. ~ Anita Loos

You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~ Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement, 6/12/05

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny. ~ Anthony Robbins

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother,the ecology,or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~ Albert Ellis

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility, win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. ~ Elaine Maxwell