什么是命运，相信每个人心里都有自己的答案，在我看来命运并非机遇，而是一种选择，如果能够把握自己的命运，就看你遇到问题的时候如何去选择了，选择正确了，命运会让你直上青云，选择错误了，只要不气馁，命运还会因此而转变。
1.“I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.”— Tom Ford, Fashion Designer
「我相信命运以及完成使命，我一直都有一个我学会去倾听的内在声音。」– 汤姆·福特 (时装设计师)
2.“If you don’t take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.”— Dr. Eric Allenbaugh, Success Coach
「你若不主动建构自己的命运，别人将会把他们的计画加诸在你身上。」– 埃里克‧爱伦包夫博士 (成功教练)
3.“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poet
「没有机会、天数、命运，可以避开、妨碍或控制一个坚定灵魂的决心。」– 艾拉‧惠勒‧威尔克斯 (诗人)
4.“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Novelist
「人生如同牌戏，别希望可以拿到什么样的牌。不管拿到什么牌，用尽你的技巧来打好牌。」– 布尔沃.李顿 (小说家)
5.“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”— Horace Mann, Education Reformer and Politician
「别等著看会有什么事情发生，下决心让对的事发生。」– 贺拉斯‧曼恩 (教育改革者)
6.“I don’t believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”— Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president
「我不相信一个不管我们做什么都会降临的命运，我相信一个如果我们什么都不做会降临的命运。」– 罗纳德‧雷根 (美国第 40 任总统)
7.“To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.”— John Glenn, Astronaut
「往后坐让命运打完它手上的牌，从不影响它不是人应当运作的方式。」– 约翰‧格伦 (太空人)
8.“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”— Anonymous
「注意你的想法，因为它将成为言语;注意你的言语，因为它将成为行为;注意你的行为，因为它将成为习惯;注意你的习惯，因为它将成为个性;注意你的个性，因为它将成为你的命运。」– 无名氏
9.“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.”— Mark Victor Hansen, Motivational writer
「你掌控你的未来、你的命运。你所想的东西会实现。借由把你的梦想及目标纪录在纸上，你启动了成为你最想成为的人的过程。把你的未来交付给可靠的人 – 你自己手里。」– 马克‧维克多‧韩森 (励志作家)
10.“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”— Anthony Robbins, Success coach
「不是现在发生在你身上的事或在你过去所发生的事决定你会成为什么样的人。反之，是你决定专注在什么事情上、事情对你的意义、及你将对它们采取什么行动，将会决定你的最终命运。」– 安东尼‧罗宾 (成功教练)
11.“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, Politician
「命运不是关于机会的事，它是关于选择的事。它不是一件被等待的事，它是一件被完成的事。」– 威廉‧詹宁斯‧布莱恩 (从政者)
12.“Every man is the architect of his own fortune”— Appius Caecus, Roman statesman
「每个人都是他自己命运的建筑师。」– 克劳狄 (罗马政治家)
13.“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.”— Jim Rohn, Author
「如果你不安排自己的人生规划，你将可能落入别人的规划。而猜猜他们可能为你规划了什么?不多。」– 吉姆‧罗恩 (励志作家)
14.“Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.”— Jean Nidetch, Entrepreneur
「选择，不是机会，决定人的命运。」– 琴‧尼德契 (企业家)
15.“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.”— Michael E. Gerber, Author
「卓越的人与其它人的差别是卓越的人主动创造他们的生活，而其它人是被他们的生活所创造，被动的观望生活接下来要带他们去哪。两者的差别是充实生活与仅仅生存的差别。」– 麦克‧格伯 (创业作家)