Pick Your Fate

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones

Goose Bumps: To keep geese from speeding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. - James R Lowell

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

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

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

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

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

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

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

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 N Anthony

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

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

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

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

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

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. - Earl Nightingale

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 stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face. - Cate Blanchett

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. - Denis Waitley

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

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

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. - Mark Zuckerberg