Dante Alighieri Quotes

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.

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

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.