John William Draper Quotes

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

Fate is for losers.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

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

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

I don't believe we get to choose in life what we get to deal with and what we don't.

The comparison to Willie Beamen - that was pretty harsh, but everything happens for a reason and like I said, you can't control it.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

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.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.