Harry Chapin Quotes

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Fate loves the fearless.

If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.

Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.