Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Votes: 4
Franklin D. RooseveltThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. Votes: 4
O. HenryWhat separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Votes: 4
Donald TrumpFate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonUnseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. Votes: 3
P. G. WodehouseFate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs. Votes: 3
Friedrich SchillerFate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue. Votes: 3
James Russell Lowell[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate". Votes: 3
Bob DylanDraw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate. Votes: 3
Dave PelzerDestiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers! Votes: 3
Douglas CouplandCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Votes: 3
Seneca the YoungerAn hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. Votes: 3
John DrydenCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Votes: 3
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. Votes: 3
Algernon Charles SwinburneTriumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheI will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Votes: 2
Ludwig van BeethovenMy whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me. Votes: 2
Sharon TateConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. Votes: 2
Muhammad IqbalWe shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Votes: 2
Iris MurdochIt is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. Votes: 1
Karl Wilhelm von HumboldtIn life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. Votes: 0
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonSiddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. Votes: 0
Hermann HesseOur fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward. Votes: 0
Jacques LusseyranNames and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. Votes: 0
Franz von PapenI WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN Votes: 0
Widad AkrawiSome third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. Votes: 0
Alexandra Kollontaiwhat cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes Votes: 0
William ShakespeareObsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldI realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. Votes: 0
Bethenny FrankelWe didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky. Votes: 0
David LevithanTo punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteA missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen. Votes: 0
Dwight L. MoodyFaber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. Votes: 0
Appius Claudius CaecusFor this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give. Votes: 0
Adela Florence NicolsonA left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. Votes: 0
Mikhail KhodorkovskyIf you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. Votes: 0
William Irwin ThompsonTalk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnIt is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting. Votes: 0
Margaret HeffernanIt is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. Votes: 0
Wilhelm von HumboldtHe cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerIt seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. Votes: 0
William Samuel JohnsonOne possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantHow a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is. Votes: 0
Wilhelm von HumboldtWhat we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeIf this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. Votes: 0
Michael J. SullivanEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauMy intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. Votes: 0
Edward SnowdenHuman life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
Friedrich NietzscheIt took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude AthertonThe fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!
Mehmet Murat ildanThe sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
Michel de MontaigneIn resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
Albert SchweitzerThere is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
Napoleon BonaparteIf there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
John Lancaster SpaldingNot what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachEvery nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
Mehmet Murat ildanO heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.
William ShakespeareIt is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
Albert SchweitzerEvery great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
Caitlin FlanaganIn time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
Edgar Lee MastersIf you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
Muriel BarberyThere's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.
Allison Winn ScotchDue to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.
Ashleigh BrilliantNotions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
Cormac McCarthyThere is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWe are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
Félix J. PalmaWhen fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
Georgette HeyerOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
Joseph AddisonA woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
William GiffordBut yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
William ShakespeareMark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Alexander PopeA brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander PopeMy day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.
Joanna BaillieIt's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Nancy PickardWhat humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
David AttenboroughNot all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
Dean KoontzSuperiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
Emily DickinsonTo make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Ihara Saikaku"It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
Roger McGoughIt is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Albert EinsteinTo have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?
Arthur SymonsThe hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Darren ShanBe the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Geoffrey ChaucerSuch is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.
John DenhamFor those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
John DrydenOft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
Michael BruceWe did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
Simonides of CeosThis day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.
William ShakespeareI know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.
Ozzy OsbourneItâs up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.
David LevithanThe Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
Edmund BurkeAfter all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.
J.R. WardWhenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
Paulo CoelhoRedeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
Peter PorterEducation which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
Alfred North WhiteheadBefore the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.
Gore VidalOur hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
Napoleon BonaparteLove is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
Rupert BrookeThe fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
VoltaireFree will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
Friedrich NietzscheI suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.
Margaret AtwoodI've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.
Stephen HawkingNothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas JeffersonFate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.
Tiffanie DeBartoloIt would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
Woodrow WilsonDestiny changes, fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength
Anamika MishraInequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.
E. M. DelafieldNothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
House Peters, Jr.Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
Italo SvevoOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.
LucretiusFate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
Aubrey MenenDonât believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
Bill CourtneyWell, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.
Joseph Gordon-LevittI wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
Lucy HawkingI've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
Robert BreaultFate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Samuel JohnsonWhat fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SophoclesMan blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
Christoph Martin WielandFate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
Gamal Abdel Nasserif we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Hannah ArendtJust because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
Jodi PicoultThough fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan SwiftIt's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Seneca the YoungerBut still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
AeschylusEvery month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Camille PagliaFor it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
John DrydenWe [people] can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
Malcolm Gladwellwhen fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.
Paulo CoelhoThe aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert BrowningNobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.
Squidward TentaclesFate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonRiches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
HeloiseDrop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
HoraceLeuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HoraceFate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
Meg RosoffTo be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
Agnes RepplierThere's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
Chuck PalahniukDo not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxArt is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
Eric MaiselIt was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThere is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.
Jenna ElfmanIt is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.
Johann Gottfried HerderAll romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Joni MitchellI am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.
M. C. EscherFate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.
Walter WykesSo, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Eleanor RooseveltFate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.
JavanWe have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.
Jessica ZafraThree things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
Johann Kaspar LavaterYou wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Douglas CouplandTill the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
Percy Bysshe ShelleyA movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.
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