Fate Quotes

35 quotations about Fate
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel · Fate
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aurelius · Fate
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon · Fate
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Francis Bacon · Fate
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen · Fate
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton · Fate
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton · Fate
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Lord Byron · Fate
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
Campbell · Fate
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius · Fate
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli · Fate
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden · Fate
Whatever limits us we call fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Fate
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Fate
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Fate
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Joseph Joubert · Fate
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung · Fate
Fate keeps on happening.
Anita Loos · Fate
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas Mann · Fate
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Moliere · Fate
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Plutarch · Fate
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Arabian Proverb · Fate
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
German Proverb · Fate
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Mathurin Regnier · Fate
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Fate

Authors on Fate

Henri Frederic Amiel Arabian Proverb Marcus Aurelius Francis Bacon Elizabeth Bowen Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Lord Byron Campbell Confucius Benjamin Disraeli John Dryden Ralph Waldo Emerson German Proverb Joseph Joubert Carl Jung Anita Loos Thomas Mann Moliere Plutarch Mathurin Regnier