Quotes

All humane things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.
-John Dryden

Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed.
-Jessi Lane Adams

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

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

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

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
-Thomas Mann

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
-Sydney Smith

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

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

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

There is no fate but your own fate.
-Leslie Grimutter

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
-Lemony Snicket

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

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
-Alexander Pope

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

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

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
-Robert Browning

Fate laughs at probabilities.
-E.G. Bulwer

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
-Alfred Adler

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

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

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
-Horace

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
-Henry Ward Beecher

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
-Douglas Coupland

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

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

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
-Diana Trilling

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
-Plutarch

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

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

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

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
-Ugo Betti

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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