Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. — Gloria Estefan
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. — Dag Hammarskjold
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of… — Tom Hanks
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. — Stephen Hawking
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. — Helen Hayes
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. — O. Henry
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of… — William Ernest Henley
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. — Jim Henson
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. — Eric Hoffer
Austerity need not be Europe's fate. — Francois Hollande
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. — Sidney Hook
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul;… — Aldous Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the… — Muhammad Iqbal
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. — Muhammad Iqbal
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. — Muhammad Iqbal
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity. — Kazuo Ishiguro
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. — Henry James
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. — William James
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his… — Franz Kafka
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. — Carl Jung

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