John Dryden Quotes

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

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

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

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.

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.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

We create our fate everyday

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.