Seneca the Younger Quotes

Nobody can say anything to take what's for me away from me. And I live by that.

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

I'm strong and spiritual, and I know that everything will work out for a reason.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

A man's character is his fate.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.