Full Idea
The order and reason of fate set in motion the general types and starting points of the causes, but each person's own will [or decisions] and the character of his mind govern the impulses of our thoughts and minds and our very actions.
Gist of Idea
Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do
Source
Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by Aulus Gellius - Noctes Atticae 7.2.11
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.110
A Reaction
So if you try and fail it was fate, but if you try and succeed it was you?
Related Idea
Idea 433 For man character is destiny [Heraclitus]