Rashida Jones Quotes

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do...with no regrets.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

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

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

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

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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

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.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

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

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.

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.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

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

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

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

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.