Top 100 Quotes About Fate
#1. Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.
Elaine Dundy
#2. This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.
Wayne Dyer
#3. It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.
Saul Perlmutter
#4. I wish I'd been born in another time, another place. Then maybe I could've escaped fate ... maybe I could've been your darling.
Nalini Singh
#5. Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington
#6. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.
Emily Thorne
#7. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
#8. Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
Robert Hunter
#9. I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
Robert Breault
#10. Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing?
Eric Maisel
#11. Coincidence is fate pulling strings." - Unknown
Joe Hart
#12. A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer
#13. No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen
#14. Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.
George S. Patton
#15. Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.
D.B. Harrop
#16. The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
Raheel Farooq
#17. I decided that was my answer to questions of fate. I could go around asking myself what if x hadn't happened, and the answer would always be, "But it did.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#18. Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
Agnes Repplier
#19. To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.
Wallace D. Wattles
#20. Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
Franz Von Papen
#21. Ruling Akaran is a strange task. In many ways, it is like balancing an illusion. You must separate the illusion of what you see and the reality of its consequences," he said. "Tell me, my queen, are you ready to play with fate?
Roshani Chokshi
#22. People say that red is the color of fate, right? Now you may think it's only troublesome, but it might connect you with something unexpectedly good.
Sorata Akizuki
#23. Love is Timeless, Time is Heartless, and Fate is Unmerciful . . .
Michael Bowler
#24. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
Judith McNaught
#25. Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson
#26. Fate will catch up to you, souls don't have a physical address.
Nikki Rowe
#27. The fate of the nation and the fate of the currency are one and the same.
Franz Pick
#28. Sadly the SS United States, the fastest Passenger Ship ever built, now rests in Philadelphia awaiting an unknown fate.
Hank Bracker
#29. Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.
Lev Grossman
#30. It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.
Lemony Snicket
#32. A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
Alexander Lowen
#33. The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.
Thomas Paine
#34. My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
Hermann Hesse
#35. Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
Euripides
#36. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
H. P. Blavatsky
#37. The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Edward Young
#38. A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands.
Bertrand Russell
#39. If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
Adrian Pasdar
#40. There are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together.
Anthony Doerr
#41. Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
Mike Mason
#42. We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.
Michael Grant
#43. Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
#44. Would that my mother could be author of my fate ... !
M.H. Rakib
#45. The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence
Anirban Bose
#46. The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.
Michael Shermer
#47. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard
Alfred Doblin
#48. Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks ... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.
Brent Weeks
#49. Archetypal images decide the fate of man.
C. G. Jung
#50. Fate and Faith are the two ends of a coin,Just like the siblings born from the womb of the same mother,Both are blessed with each's intellect,Neither one is Superior nor the other Inferior,For having Faith can change your Fate and Fate has its own way of changing your Faith
Abhishek Sundarraman
#51. We [people] can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
Malcolm Gladwell
#52. It's the choices we make that decides our own fate.
S.B.J.
#53. Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
Horace Walpole
#54. What's the world's greatest lie?' The boy asked, completely surprised.
'It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That is the world's greatest lie.
Paulo Coelho
#55. One cannot escape one's fate - whether good or bad; she leaves memories in us.
Sharlyn G. Branson
#56. Jessie's fate was a complex tapestry of many choices and many circumstances, and Kera knew she had been only one small thread in the weave.
L.J. Sellers
#57. I went running and I ran into her again thanks to fate or coincidence or divine intervention or maybe you had something to do with it.
Colleen Hoover
#58. Birkin came with Hermione. She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question.
D.H. Lawrence
#59. Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.
Steven Redhead
#60. Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#62. That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
Michael Ondaatje
#63. Fate, suffering, changing, expected outcomes, killing dreams, rupturing hearts and hopes, Fate blanks the disappointment in my chest with suffering, then slaps me right across the face with it.
YellowBella
#64. Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#65. Fate threw his hands up as I passed the ice cream stand. "Where are you going?"
"My condo."
"I still want ice cream."
"You still want ice cream?"
"Yes.
Donna Augustine
#66. Many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. Its fate. What's meant to be will always find a way.
Clara Garcia
#67. Fate is a comfortable mistress, Wes, if you accept her demands." Fate, the mistress that four years ago had put him the hands of mercenaries who turned him over to the British to be tortured.
"Listen to the monk teaching me about mistresses." Wesley chuckled.
-Vitor & Wesley
Katharine Ashe
#69. The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
Ray Kurzweil
#70. By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
Saul David
#71. Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David Roberts
#72. That's the thing about wishes, though - they're just that. Hopes thrown out to the universe, swept away on a breeze and left up to fate.
Carmen Jenner
#73. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Robert Burns
#74. Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Thomas Mann
#76. What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.
Amy Lane
#77. Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random ... Chaos is only an illusion.
B.C. Sirrom
#78. What's fate to you, opal? she asks.
opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not.
Mary E. Pearson
#79. The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.
Martha Beck
#80. Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: "ontic anxiety" is the fear of fate and death. The second is "moral anxiety," from guilt, or condemnation. The third is "spiritual anxiety," prompted by an empty life, without direction or meaning.
Caitlin Moran
#81. I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#82. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#83. Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren't meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.
Kathleen Tessaro
#84. Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. Travers
#85. With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.
You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.
Morrissey
#86. It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.
Gayle Forman
#87. Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Plautus
#89. Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.
Caroline Myss
#90. Fate was working its ass off when it got us all together.
Elmore Leonard
#91. Fate isn't one straight road ... there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
Dean Koontz
#92. Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way
like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Dan Simmons
#94. To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul
That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.
Sophocles
#95. No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.
Margaret Kennedy
#97. I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Ronald Reagan
#98. Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
Agnes Repplier
#99. Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?
Ellen Hopkins
#100. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
W.B.Yeats
