Motivational Quotes

Fate

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Fate

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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.

Hovey, Richard

3.

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!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

Michael Patrick King

5.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Shakespeare, William

6.

Fate keeps on happening.

Loos, Anita

7.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Virgil

8.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

9.

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

11.

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Pollard, Josephine

13.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

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

Plutarch

17.

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

Virgil

18.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J.K. Rowling

19.

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

23.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

24.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

Campbell

28.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

William McFee

30.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

G. K. Chesterton

31.

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

Zeno, Citium

32.

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.

Madonna

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Jung, Carl

37.

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.

Chapman, John Jay

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Seneca

40.

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!

Dryden, John

41.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

42.

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

Mann, Thomas

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

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