What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
William Shakespeare
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S Truman
Fate throws fortune, but not everyone catches.
Polish Proverb
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Seneca
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
Danish Proverb
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Just because fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown