"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat." - Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

"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

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." - Albert Camus

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - G. K. Chesterton, Generally Speaking

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven." - Confucius

"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?" - Alexander Pope

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium

"Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets." - KARL POPPER, The Open Society and Its Enemies

"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
- SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

"There is no armor against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings."
- JAMES SHIRLEY, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses

"It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul." - Henley, William E. from 'Invictus'

"Immortality--a fate worse than death." - Shoaff, Edgar A.