FATE

Famous Quotes

Quote: It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher

Quote: Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Men at sometime are the masters of their fate. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: 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. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: There is no armor against fate. Author: James Shirley 1596-1666, British Playwright

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

Quote: Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

Quote: Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. Author: Citium Zeno 335?-264 B.C., Greek Philosopher

Quote: Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

Quote: Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Quote: Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Quote: Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

Quote: Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet

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

Quote: 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. Author: John Jay Chapman 1862-1933, American Author

Quote: Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.'' Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: We make our fortunes and we call them fate. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

Quote: 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! Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

Quote: Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Whatever limits us we call fate. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: 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. Author: Richard Hovey 1869-1900, American Poet

Quote: Chance generally favors the prudent. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist

Quote: When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

Quote: Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate! Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet

Quote: Fate keeps on happening. Author: Anita Loos 1893-1981, American Novelist, Screenwriter

Quote: Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Author: Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic

Quote: The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Author: MoliFre 1622-1673, French Playwright

Quote: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

Quote: Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

Quote: The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round. Author: Josephine Pollard 1843-1892, American Poet

Quote: Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin

Quote: One must either be the hammer or the anvil. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin

Quote: Every one is the architect of his own fortune. Author: Mathurin Regnier 1573-1613, French Poet

Quote: Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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