William Irwin Thompson Quotes

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.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Fate is for losers.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

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

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

I don't believe in hope. I believe in action, if I'm an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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

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.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

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

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

Destiny is no 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.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Either move or be moved.

A man's character is his fate.

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