James Russell Lowell Quotes

You cannot take all the chances you get.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

Fate is for losers.

There's only so much you can control in life.

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.