Fate Quotes

When I was younger, things happened in my life that made me wonder if they were a coincidence or was it fate? And now, as the years have passed, I strongly believe in fate -- everything happens for a reason. Catherine Pulsifer, The Simple Touch of Fate

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius

Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour. Ovid

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. Harry S Truman

Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny. Proverb

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears! John McLeod, from Frames of a Sea Lover

Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but ourselves. Olehile Fischer Thataone, from Commitment

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We are partners by fate. We become friends by choice. Jacquie McTaggart

Each man is the architect of his own fate. Appius Claudius

We create our fate every day we live. Henry Miller

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. Amy Tan

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. Lord Byron

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. William Shakespeare

As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence. Ronald Harmon

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

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. Alfred Victor Vigny

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. Madonna

Just because fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. Les Brown

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

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. La Rochefoucauld

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the set of the soul that decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox