Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.

Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall read more

Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still read more

Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,
To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd
Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of
them will be what they will be; why read more

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of
them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be
deceived?

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.