Destiny and Overcoming

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity, nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Character is destiny.

A man's character is his fate.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

The freest human being is not one who acts on reasons he has chosen for himself, but one who never has to choose. Rather than agonizing about alternatives he responds effortlessly to situations as they arise. He lives not as he chooses but as he must.

“Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen.