Quotes about fate

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

— Marcus Aurelius

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

— Francis Bacon

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

— Francis Bacon

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

— Lord Byron

But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.

— Campbell

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

— John Jay Chapman

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

— Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

— Confucius

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

— John Dryden

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

— John Dryden

Whatever limits us we call fate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

— Horace

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

— Richard Hovey

Chance generally favors the prudent.

— Joseph Joubert

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

— Carl Jung

THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fate keeps on happening.

— Anita Loos

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

— Thomas Mann

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

— Moliere

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

— Ovid

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

— Plutarch

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

— Josephine Pollard

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

— Arabian Proverb

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

— German Proverb

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

— Mathurin Regnier

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

— Seneca

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

— Seneca

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

— Seneca

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

— William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

— William Shakespeare

There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.

— William Shakespeare

There is no armor against fate.

— James Shirley

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

— Source Unknown

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

— Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

— Virgil

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

— Citium Zeno

I won’t go into details, but doom was the primary element, or where its at in respect to harmony, order, and peace because as fortune has it, fate didn’t have a chance.

— James Dye

Shaped fate is the resultant of sharpened focus

— Mokgehle William wisbar

Pity those who Nature abuses, never those who abuse Nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan