Fate Quotes

2346 quotes by 1440 authors

Chance generally favors the prudent. — Joseph Joubert
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
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. — Douglas Coupland
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. — Alexander Pope
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. — Ugo Betti
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. — Louisa May Alcott
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion. — Elie Wiesel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
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
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
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow. — Dante Alighieri

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