Fate Quotes

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
- Alfred Victor Vigny

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- French Proverb

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate, good is always the product of an art.
- Charles Baudelaire

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 my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought, - for causes which are unpenetrated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
- Nicholas Rescher

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
- Carolyn Wells

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow