 | "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939. |
| "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
- Jean Nidetch
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| "Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
- Juvenal
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| "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur
, lecture 1854. |
| "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
- Ovid
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| "Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."
- Thucydides
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| "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan
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