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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