Pick Your Fate

Fate is character. - William Winter

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. - Dale Carnegie

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. - Earl of Beaconsfield

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. - Arabic proverb

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

Don't risk more than you can afford to lose. - Joe Segal

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you take the risk, you are deserving of the reward. - Joe Segal

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. - Amy Tan

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. - French Proverb

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S Patton

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. - Dante Alighieri

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. - Ernest Hemingway

Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate? - ichtys

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

An individual's fate is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. - Unknown

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. - Wilfrid G. Oakley

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick Wilcox

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." - Hugh Downs

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. - Sarah J. Hale

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

When you're my age, you just never risk being ill - because then everyone says, "Oh, he's done for." - John Gielgud

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all - Marquis of Montrose

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

If you are really Master of your Fate,
It shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate. - Ogden Nash

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates! - Dave Barry

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. - Neil Simon