Human effort can be used for self-betterment and that there is no such — Fate

"Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be, and be this so."

"Marty, the future isnt written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be."

"Fate has carried me Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand— Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another."

"Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn."

"Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow."

"A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."