The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
- Robert Browning
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
- Diana Trilling
All humane things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.
- John Dryden
There is no fate but your own fate.
- Leslie Grimutter
Fate laughs at probabilities.
- E.G. Bulwer
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
- Plutarch
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed.
- Jessi Lane Adams
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
- Albert Einstein
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
- Alfred Adler
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism, the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
- W. H. Auden
They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
- Matthew Arnold
He drifts along as his lost genius becks, A wreck of Fate, and fated source of wrecks.
- Unknown
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- Jean de La Fontaine
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
- Louisa May Alcott
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
- Lucan
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals.
- Bertrand Russell
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
- Lemony Snicket
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
- Horace
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
- Ugo Betti
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
- Thomas Mann
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
- W. H. Auden
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
- Sydney Smith
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
- Alexander Pope
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- Douglas Coupland
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
- Carolyn Wells
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
- Nicholas Rescher
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought, - for causes which are unpenetrated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate, good is always the product of an art.
- Charles Baudelaire
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
- French Proverb
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
- Alfred Victor Vigny
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
