Quotation Explorer - 'Fate'

I am the master of my mind and fate. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Did you feel it? Did you feel the darkness in their souls and their countless evil deeds? Their fate was to die in my grasp, beneath the sting of my bite. - Demetri Bithanos from the Dragon Queen Series
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map. - Sarah Addison Allen
At the end of the day, he continued, although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through life with independent thought alone who are the strongest. - Adele Rose
If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate - Muriel Barbery
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. - Goldie Hawn
I’m not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can tell you that sometimes the very thing you’ve been hoping for will walk through the door, determined to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough. - Kiera Cass
The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow. - Farrah Naseem
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise. - Barbara W. Tuchman
A man's character is his fate. - Heraclitus
Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make. - Michael Moreci
... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it. - Eric Smith
The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!In all honesty, hate has no fate. But greed does it needs money, its faith. - Zarina Bibi
Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances. - Sylvan Barnet
Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination. - Zweig, Stefan
An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. - Sarah Jessica Parker
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation! - Mehmet Murat ildan
But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand. - John Bude
I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will. - MacDonald Harris
In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting. - Serina Hartwell
Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear! - Mehmet Murat ildan
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
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. - Epicurus
Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved. - Tom Conrad
It has been my fate, and one's fate one accepts. It's a dreadful thing to have to say, in so wicked a world. - Henry James
In this life at least,Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well,Impervious heroes we are not… - Scott Hastie
The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so. - Stephen Richards
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it. - Richard Paul Evans
It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door. - Anthony Liccione
Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell
Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation. - Darmie Orem
Knowledge is a deadly friend when no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.
What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way? - Donna Tartt
It was strange even after suffering from fate, a person in love would choose the same fate over his life. - Faraaz Kazi
Fate has put us in the same way for us to meet and unite our lives forever. - Auliq Ice
There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert Camus
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. - Knut Hamsun
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
When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. - C.G. Jung
The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices...but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. - Louise Penny
Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. - Abraham H. Maslow
I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me. - Kami Garcia
Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger. - Destiny Booze
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. - Jane Austen
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are. - Michael Patrick King
How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause? - Sophie Scholl
That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? That is my gospel. What do you think of it? - William McFee
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. - Amy Tan
Fate is not in man but around him - Albert Camus
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. - William McFee
When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate. - Auliq Ice
Fate rolls with laughter in the distance. - Trish Millburn
How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate,Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate? - Frances Rodman
Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives. - Michael Meade
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. - Derek Landy
Dreams are sacred future events. It can be either a fate or a warning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Amor Fati Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though. - Amy Winehouse
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. - Sun-tzu
Whether fate or fortuitous,The voyage is incessant.Life is gratuitous,It's regrets recrudescent.We so blindly see adversely,Linear to some 'decree'.Sentenced by each other,To live this critically.To err is Human,Ironic that we divest.For any man who puts that past him,No misfortunes he has left. - Alen Joans
For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go! - Laurence Hope
Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings. - John Dryden
The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet. - E.E. Cummings
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. - John Perkins
fearless face your fate. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? - Boris Pasternak
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke. - Gregory David Roberts
He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead. - Anita Baker
Fighting with your fate is equal to fight with God. - Sher E Yazdan
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
I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so. - Fernando Alonso Díaz
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - Hyrum Smith
[That] was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie. - Kathy Hepinstall
It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. - Donna Tartt
What separates the wise from the unwise is; how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate. - Aditya Ajmera
What we can't control, we call fate. - Marty Rubin
he imagined fate as a goddess, capricious and fickle, or as a river, which could flood at any moment - Takashi Hiraide
We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up. - Munia Khan
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings.A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. - Richmond Lattimore
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau
With faith, you can find your fate. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all. - Deepak Chopra
Fate smiles to the bold - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert. - Theognis
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. - Hyman G. Rickover
Destiny changes, Fate changes, just believe in your inner self, your dreams and your strength - Anamika Mishra
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY. - Nelson Mandela
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
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
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
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
Love is fate that ends in tragedy. - Gabriella Jording
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
Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future. - Jinnul Jr.
That doesn't make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into. - Rutha Sepetys
Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour
I believe in finding strengthand safety in the arm'sOf Fate - The Sum Of Me
Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. - Shannon L. Alder
The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate. - Raheel Farooq
God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate. - Bashir F. Biodun
Fate. You could never anticipate it. - Nora Roberts
Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. - V.S. Carnes
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller
Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. - Donna Tartt
THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO - Dean Chavooshian
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved - Friedrich Nietzsche
We can decide our fate every day, when we love we will be loved. - Ron Baratono
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. - Gabriel García Márquez
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. - Albert Einstein
When you go into court, you're putting your fate in the hands of 12 people not smart enough to get out of jury duty. - Norm Crosby
Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought and every action. - Matthew Donnelly
One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one. - raja shakeel mushtaque
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. - Douglas Coupland
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny. - Aphra Behn
I shall seize fate by the throat. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it - Anamika Mishra
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate. - Elvis Costello
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. - Madonna
Freedom is what we do; fate is what happens to us. - Marty Rubin
Hold on little girlShow me what he's done to youStand up little girlA broken heart can't be that badWhen it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you - Mr. Big
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds. - Stanisław Pigoń
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. - Heloise
Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable. - Rabih Alameddine
Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. - D.B. Harrop
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray
Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny. - Carroll Bryant
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end. - Ogwo David Emenike
What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate. - Raheel Farooq
Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over the hill... - Virginia Alison
Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another. - George Eliot
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. - Stephen Jay Gould
LOVE is the most powerful human force!! Let's practice it to improve the fate of humanity!First self love,then love to others and our environment.LOVE is humble,patient,humble patient,charming,it's wonderful feeling! - S.Remolina
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. - Auliq Ice
The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Whatever limits us, we call Fate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. - Shahla Khan
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
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate. - Alan Beattie
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. - Aeschylus
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. - Winston S. Churchill
Many people in this world want you to follow them blindly, no questions asked , they wanna control your fate, your heart, soul & thoughts, I tell you...Follow your heart , listen to what it has to say . - sami abouzid
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. - Tom Hiddleston
For a moment, I believed in fate. Such a delicate balance of events had lead to us meeting. It all seemed too much to be a coincidence because I was so delusional in my infatuation. I fell into the trap of my own idea of how things should be. - Ashley Sarel
Soulmates don’t choose each other; fate chooses them. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We make our fortunes and call them fate. - Benjamin Disraeli
What's the world's greatest lie?... 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. - Paulo Coelho
So it’s fate then? I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, Us being together?Absolutely, Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate? - E.J. Stevens
I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if im lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place. - Nikki Rowe
It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate! - Mehmet Murat ildan
What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools? - Ogwo David Emenike
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. - Democritus
The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth - Sunday Adelaja
There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile. - Nikki Rowe
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana
Choices can help create the human desire for their future. But there are some, who's fate has already been decided. - Michelle Goncalves
The only thing that gets in the way of our plans and objectives is fate. It has its own path for you whether it's fair or unjust. - Gabriella Jording
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin. - Allan Pinkerton
You may not get it right the first time...life happens,people meddle,you frustrate each other and in those circumstances,you drift apart...When you get a second chance and the universe smiles at you,destiny lends a hand and fate brings you together again,Do not mess it up - Dru Edmund Kucherera
To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head. - Giacomo Casanova
The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. - Yann Martel
In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together. - Nora Roberts
Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it. - Ogwo David Emenike
Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth. - Max Zeller
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. - Henry Miller
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do. - Brad Meltzer
Dreams can be either fate or a warning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. - Euripides
My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing… Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy - Sarah J. Pepper
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. - Paul Hoffman
‎Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest. - Marshall Masters
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. - Jeanne d'Arc
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude. - Ole Hallesby
...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. - E.E. Cummings
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. - John Fletcher
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. - Thucydides
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. - Martha Gellhorn
A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate. - Mark W. Boyer
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate. - C.G. Jung
He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. - Alice Hoffman
The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous. - Émile Zola
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. - Vincent van Gogh
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind. - Mozzie white collar
The fate of one man or woman is the fate of all men and women. - Marty Rubin
Ending a series is a difficult one .......where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that. - Shandy L. Kurth
We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist. - Mehmet Murat ildan
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. - Wilhelm von Humboldt
Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand...
Fate, up against your will. - Echo and the Bunnymen
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? - Dante Alighieri
Chance or fate has, yes, participation in your life. But how much it happens, it's up to you. - 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert Camus
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. - Seneca
All are architects of fate. So look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When fate connects an invisible thread between a man and a woman who are bound to be together, no matter how hard they try to fight against their own destiny, they can’t change what’s meant to be. - Nino Varsimashvili
Words of the hero: "I am my fate. - Marty Rubin
I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can. - Nikki Rowe
Let every man be master of his fate. - Khalid Masood
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never. - Jane Austen
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. - Rudyard Kipling
Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate! - Somya Kedia
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering. - Nobuyuki Fukumoto
It's the way we deal with what fate hands us that defines who we are. - Lisa Graff
The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. - Sara Quin
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods. - Dan Simmons
I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer. - Kelly Corrigan
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. - C.G. Jung
Fate is fait accompli - Messaoud Mohammed
Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! - Raimbaut de Vaqueyras
I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton
We live by faith. Our fate is in the hands of the faithful God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it. - Joaquim Nabuco
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. - T.E. Lawrence
Fate will catch up to you, souls don't have a physical address. - Nikki Rowe
May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does! - Hans Christian Andersen
Conducting an investigation is the result of a crime that has taken place. Sometimes you have to accept the facts, make peace, and move on with love still in your heart. Fate is out of our reach. - Marxxha
Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process. - G.R. Gopinath
Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate - Elliot Kesebonye
Take a step of faith. And leave fate to the faithful God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The bible divides mankind, god will decide our fate. - Sixeye
For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness. - Darmie Orem
Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us. - Nikki Rowe
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. - Jacques Delille
But that was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie. - Kathy Parks
No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate. - Johnathan Jena
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven. - Juvenal
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically. - Philip Pullman
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. - Jacques Delille
​Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall carve of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. - William Shakespeare
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. - Andrew Carnegie
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. - John Dryden
If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. - Sri Chinmoy
We can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way fate can keep us apart. - Nikki Rowe
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. - Jim Sturgess
We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other. - Alison Singh Gee
Observe your path ahead carefully; see the dangers and the opportunities! By this way you can write your own fate with your own judgements! - Mehmet Murat ildan
And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. - Robert Beatty
But they are many and he is alone.This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet. - John French
But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt. - Andrew Marvell
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod. - David Scheier
There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith - Swetha Dhanagari
Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a destiny fulfilled. - Rome Sims
And yet, my girl, we weep in vain,In vain our fate in sighs deplore;Remembrance only can remain,But that, will make us weep the more. - George Gordon Byron
They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means. - Noah Wareness
Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world. - Russell Eric Dobda
If you are loyal to your time,finally the fate will be loyal to you. - IqraI qbal
I loved the sea as much as he does.. Today I know it is more than fate, more than destiny.. You and Me are one Sea. ! - jmemo
Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it. - Arlene J. Chai
People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. - Lemony Snicket
A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. - Mahavira
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant
,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand. - John Bude
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. - W.B. Yeats
Fearless fate! - Lailah Gifty Akita
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power. - Frank Herbert
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Fate determines what comes into your life,you decide what you want in your life,and your choices decide what stays in your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate lies in wait like a fucking time bomb, rearranging and aligning the stars to its own satisfaction. Then, one day, it detonates right in your face and all you want to do is not exist. But it’s what you do to dislodge Fate’s teeth from your ass that matters. - Cecilia Robert
Love and trust are so powerful. They can literally change the fate of a person. - Tasha Hoggatt
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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