Fate Quotes

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals.
- Bertrand Russell

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
- Lucan

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
- Louisa May Alcott

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- Jean de La Fontaine

He drifts along as his lost genius becks, A wreck of Fate, and fated source of wrecks.
- Anonymous Author

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
- Matthew Arnold

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
- W. H. Auden

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism, the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru