Fate And Destiny Quotes - Page 2

• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Strength, Fate

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

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• 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

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Silly, Fate, Would Be

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

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• Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Destiny, Oval

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Fate

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  Karl Popper

  Fate, Prophet, Makers

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction

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• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Fate, Adventurer

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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  Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

  Les Brown

  Giving Up, Powerful, Mean

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Destiny, Eagles

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• Love the people with whom fate brings you together

  Marcus Aurelius

  Valentines Day, Fate, Destiny

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• Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

  John McLeod

  Fate, Strange

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I do not 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

  Believe, Fall, Fate

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Courage, Motivation

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Birthday, Character

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

  Denis Waitley

  Perseverance, Destiny, Long

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• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2038, e-artnow

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• No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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• When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Funny, Famous Inspirational, Fate

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