Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,… — Natalia Ginzburg
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. — Robert Breault
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. — Robert Breault
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. — Robert Breault
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. — Robert Breault
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. — Robert Breault
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. — Robert Breault
Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. — Robert Breault
Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens,… — Robert Breault
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave… — Robert Breault
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. — Abraham Lincoln
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nobody becomes guilty by fate. — Seneca the Younger
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
I believe in fate, never in chance. — George MacDonald
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool. — Euripides
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. — Euripides
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep. — Sophocles
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. — Sophocles
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors. — Alfred North Whitehead
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead

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