Gena Showalter Quotes

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.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

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

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

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

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.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

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

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

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

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

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

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

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

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

The choice you make, makes you.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.