Otto von Bismarck Quotes

What you cannot control, you must accept.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Fate operates when people give up

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

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

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

You can't control everything that comes to you.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The changes were inevitable and one has to accept them gracefully

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

You can't control everything.

Some things you can't control.

It's better to accept destiny.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.