Fate Quotes - Page 8

• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Odds, Contentment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

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• Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

  Plutarch

  Destiny, Drag, Fate And Destiny

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• Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

  Honore de Balzac

  Blood, Political, Liberty

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

  Norman Cousins

  Failure, Destiny, People

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• 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

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Country, School

  'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

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• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  E. M. Forster

  Agreement, Literature, Fool

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Anais Nin

  Teamwork, War, Would Be

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• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Religion, Finals, Literature

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fear, Animal, Men

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• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Order, Affair

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Deserve More

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Light, Wind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Winning, Unhappy

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Assurance, Macbeth Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 83

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• There is no armour against fate.

  James Shirley

  Armour

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Facts, Understood, Has Beens

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• I do believe in fate.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Believe

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• Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Dice, Peasants

  Works Volume XV, 1821 Edition (p. 103)

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• The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Doe, Anvils

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• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Fear, Men

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Honor, Heroism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

  Franz Kafka

  War, Hands, Rejection

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheer Up, Amor, Facts

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