Pick Your Fate

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

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

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

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

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

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. - Mark Twain

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

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley

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

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill

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

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx

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

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

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

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? - Alexander Pope

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

I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

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

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. - Donald Trump

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

The greatest human achievement is not success but facing an unchangeable fate with great courage. - Viktor Frankl

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

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. - Bertrand Russell

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

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