Fate Quotes
2346 quotes by 1440 authors
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
— Joseph Joubert
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years…
— Carolyn Wells
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
— Douglas Coupland
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
— Alexander Pope
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
— Ugo Betti
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
— Louisa May Alcott
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
— Elie Wiesel
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Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what…
— James Levine
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They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we…
— Alexander Lowen
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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he…
— Joseph Campbell
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Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of…
— Thomas Sowell
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Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will…
— Epicurus
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the…
— Sun Tzu
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
— Dante Alighieri
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