Fate Quotes

Most popular fate quotes

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. - Paulo Coelho quote.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
Fate laughs at probabilities. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Fate laughs at probabilities.
What is ordained is master of the gods and thee. - Euripides quote.
What is ordained is master of the gods and thee.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. - Euripides quote.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

necessity

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. - Jonathan Swift quote.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

helping others

My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate. - John H. Glenn, Jr. quote.
My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

action self-determination

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

character action habit

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

action

All blessings are mixed blessings. - John Updike quote.
All blessings are mixed blessings.

luck

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine quote.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Luck is the residue of design.

luck hard work

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

action

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
— French proverb

French proverbs proverbs

No man can escape his fate. - Sophocles quote.
No man can escape his fate.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D. Roosevelt quote.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

mind

All art is a revolt against man's fate. - Andre Malraux quote.
All art is a revolt against man's fate.

revolt art

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare quote.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
I...resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I...resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. - Elizabeth Bowen quote.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. - Pearl Buck quote.
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Fate is determined by what one does and what one doesn't do. - Ralph Ellison quote.
Fate is determined by what one does and what one doesn't do.
No human being is master of his fate, and...we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill-luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

luck fortune

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru quote.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

life free will

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.