J. A. Konrath Quotes

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Fate is for losers.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Our history is not our destiny.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

History need not be our destiny.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please …. All history is the record of man’s signal failure to thwart his destiny.

My countrymen, the currents of destiny flow through the hearts of the people. Who will check them ? Who will divert them? Who will stop them?