Top 100 Life Fate Quotes
#1. Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Henry Miller
#2. You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions.
Adwitiya Borah
#3. I embrace Fate like a lover. All my life, Fate has wished to be my lover and tried to govern me. Now I turn to submit to his embraces.
Margaret George
#4. The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C. Wright Mills
#5. Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate;
Your line to die for never seed shall take.
Death and torment to those caught in their wake,
unless each son finds his forechosen mate...
For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.
Kresley Cole
#6. Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like
Natalia Lizardo
#7. Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.
Steven Redhead
#8. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.
Kyle Richardson
#9. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#11. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
#12. If it's meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.
Jennifer Hudson
#13. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#15. At some point of our life, we will lose control of everything surrounds us and we will be controlled by the fate. That is the world's biggest lie.
Paulo Coelho
#16. I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
B.C. Forbes
#18. There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be ...
John Lennon
#20. When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.
Daniel Kehlmann
#22. Or maybe it was her father's pragmatic dictum -- "You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you"-- that disposed her to see the hardships of her life as a fate shared by everyone, her good fortunes as an unearned blessing.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#23. Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
Nancy Yi Fan
#24. Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.
Gregory Miller
#25. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.
Mahmoud Darwish
#26. This is worth an eternity of torture," he whispered. "I'm quite certain I love you more than anyone I've ever loved, in any life. I may have lost my soul when I was turned, but it's been replaced by you, Cassandra. I'll never let you go.
L.J. Kentowski
#27. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.
Sandra Lee
#28. I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.
Charlotte Bronte
#29. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia E. Barr
#30. But as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
Heidi Julavits
#31. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
#32. Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.
Nikki Rowe
#33. A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
Ari Kiev
#34. It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
Eric Hoffer
#36. Destiny is manifested only through action.
Suzy Kassem
#37. Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.
Lara Biyuts
#38. Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
Elena Ferrante
#39. sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life
Sadashivan Nair
#40. If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.
Morgan Rhodes
#41. I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#42. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#44. Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
George Gissing
#46. You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.
Murasaki Shikibu
#47. These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.
Dean Koontz
#48. I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.
Daniel Handler
#49. Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.
Nate Silver
#50. That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
Alexandre Dumas
#51. Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.
Henry James
#52. Regardless of my age, such a trivial thing isn't important, it was upon that decision which my life hung.
Ross Turner
#53. I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
Cilla Black
#54. Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design of fate in which order they are arranged...
Nirmala Kasinathan
#56. There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person
it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life ... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.
Ivan Turgenev
#57. How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.
Jim Beaver
#58. It is strange how intricately life hangs in the scales, and how unrelated events and single decisions alter the outcomes. Some remote land ten thousand miles from me, some land unfamiliar to me, held the key to my future.
Sara Niles
#59. I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I've been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...
Amy Shannon
#60. She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.
Alistair MacLean
#61. Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!
Charles Dickens
#62. The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
Paulo Coelho
#63. You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
Hilary Swank
#64. I love you," he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.
Roshani Chokshi
#66. I can't tell which is the worse fate--to question everything, to be paralyzed by indecision, or to question nothing and move through the world blind to any other way of existing save for your own.
Laura Thalassa
#67. A man's fate is a man's fate and life is but an illusion.
James Clavell
#68. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.
Drew Karpyshyn
#69. The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
John Muir
#70. Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#71. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.
Larry Fessenden
#72. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Tom A. Watson
#73. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
William Manchester
#75. I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
- Oromis
Christopher Paolini
#76. I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
Emily Giffin
#77. Oh the irony life sometimes throws our way. It's almost like fate plays a sadistic joke on us just because she's in a mood that day - fickle bitch that she is.
Suzanne Steele
#78. You'll not fulfill God's will for your life accidentally. It doesn't come to pass through fate or the sovereignty of God.
Paul Silway
#79. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
Sol Luckman
#80. Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
Laini Taylor
#82. Quinn's life rested on the fate of seven Warriors who were coming to free him.
Donna Grant
#83. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
Jacqueline Carey
#84. What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
Jeanette Winterson
#85. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan Of Arc
#86. For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.
Nikki Rowe
#87. What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.
David Attenborough
#88. Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.
Steven Redhead
#89. We all have such fateful objects
it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another
carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
Vladimir Nabokov
#90. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
Erich Fromm
#91. I know the consequences, Manon," Ilyse conceded. "I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.
Melika Dannese Lux
#92. To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?
Arthur Symons
#93. What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow.
Tim Fargo
#95. No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
Pat Conroy
#96. If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, - then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
Johannes Kepler
#97. He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
Pierre Corneille
#98. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
#99. There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
Bill Walton
#100. And when we left Colorado last month, I wasn't sure if I'd ever make another friend again."
"But then I came into your life. Sounds like fate to me.
Suzanne Young
