And what fate befalls mutineers?

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

— Dean Koontz

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

— Jim Hightower

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

— Honore de Balzac

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

— Aldous Huxley

“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

— Stephen King

You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

— Florence Welch

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and…

— Alexander the Great

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

— Horace

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a…

— Khushwant Singh

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson