Destiny Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

— Amish Tripathi

For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the way through…

— Sorin Cerin

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

— Henry Newbolt

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes…

— Jonathan Swift

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

— Anonymous

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— Élisée Reclus

Diminish the influence of fate

— Darin Strauss

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— John Adams