Motivational Quotes

Fate

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

- Jacques Delille

Best Quotes about Fate

1.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

2.

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

3.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

4.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Seneca

5.

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

6.

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

William McFee

7.

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

Proverb, Arabian

8.

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

9.

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

Confucius

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

John Fletcher

13.

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

Zeno, Citium

14.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Virgil

15.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

J.K. Rowling

21.

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

22.

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

Byron, Lord

23.

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

Dryden, John

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Fate keeps on happening.

Loos, Anita

29.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Horace

34.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

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

Campbell

37.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

38.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

39.

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

40.

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

Proverb, German

41.

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

42.

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

Mann, Thomas

43.

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

44.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Pollard, Josephine

48.

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

Virgil

49.

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

Jung, Carl

50.

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