Fate Quotes - Page 5

• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Knowledge, Knowing, Too Much

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Stars, Destiny

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• Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Boxing, Unseen, Gloves

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

  Cassandra Clare

  Struggle, Swim, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

  Sean O'Casey

  Inspirational, Funny Life, Drama

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• Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

  Omar Khayyam

  Rose, Thrones, Earth

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

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• Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Missing You, Mistake, I Love New York

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• The heart is its own Fate.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.39

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• Chance generally favors the prudent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Favors, Prudent

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• Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

  Mary Renault

  Dark, Dark Places

  "The Bull from the Sea". Book by Mary Renault, 1962.

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• 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

  Time, Learning, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Heaven

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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

  Karl Popper

  Prophet, Makers, Fate And Destiny

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction

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• Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Choices, Love Is

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

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• I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

  Anatole France

  Literature, Poverty, Taught

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• I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

  Richard Hovey

  Destiny, Sea, Sky

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Destiny, Belief

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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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• We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

  Ugo Betti

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

  Confucius

  Today, Wheels, Fortune

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• Love cannot save you from your own fate.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Pregnancy, Destiny

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• There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Names

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• They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Fall, May, Pieces

  "In Rufinum". Book I. 22,

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• No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Taken, Men, Virtue

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Historia, XXIII. 5, 1922.

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