Jean Nidetch Quotes

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

A man's character is his fate.

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

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.