Fate Quotes, Sayings about Destiny
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn – Albert Camus.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself – Albert Einstein.
Each man is the architect of his own fate – Appius Claudius.
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1 – Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards – Arthur Schopenhauer.
We make our own fortunes and we call them fate – Benjamin Disraeli.
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength – Billy.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on – Citium Zeno.
There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it – Diana Trilling.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young – Duke Ellington.
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.
Fate laughs at probabilities – E.G. Bulwer-Lytton.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat – Elizabeth Bowen.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools – E. M. Forster.
Wherever fate demands me I will go – Gertudis Gomez de Avellaneda.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act – Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes – Goethe.
Control your fate or somebody else will – Heinrich von Pierer.
We create our fate every day we live – Henry Miller.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Character is destiny – Heraclitus
Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other hand, he lives with an awareness of tragic fate. This is a paradox – Imre Kertesz.
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 – James Beattie.
There is no armor against fate – James Shirley.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will – Jawaharial Nehru.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it – Jean de La Fontaine.
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep – and anywhere else it is needed – Jessi Lane Adams.
All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey – John Dryden.
A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate – Jose Ferrer.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny – Kamran Hamid.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is – Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like – Lemony Snicket.
There is no fate but your own fate – Leslie Grimutter.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star – Lord Byron.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate – Lucan.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart – Marcus Aelius Aurelius.
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places – Mary Renault.
The heart is its own Fate – Philip James Bailey.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity – Publilius Syrus.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling – Seneca.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God – Seneca.
To bear is to conquer our fate – Thomas Campbell.
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it – Virgil.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow – Virgil.
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality – Wendell Phillips.
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 – William Cowper.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived – William Jennings Bryan.
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow – William McFee.
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