J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

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.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

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

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

What is not possible is not to choose.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Consult duty not events.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.