Fate Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever limits us we call fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

  John Lennon

  Life, Being Yourself, Destiny

  John Lennon (2002). “The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years”, p.215, Berklee Press

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Death Sentence

  The Mint (1955) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

  Dante Alighieri

  Faith, Taken, Inferno

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Change, Determination

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1615, e-artnow

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• As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spring, Mistake, Destiny

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

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• It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Dying, Experience, Alive

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

  Jessica Taylor

  Journey, Destiny, May

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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• The future gets no say in who we are.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Future, Destiny, Poetry

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• Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave 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

  Stars, Evil, Shining

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

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• Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Work, Manifestation, Seeds

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Complaining, Made

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Journey, Destiny, Discovery

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

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Plutarch

  Destiny, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

  Alexander the Great

  Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Destiny, Men, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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• See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Prosperity, Dare, Worthy

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.705, Oxford University Press

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• It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Hate, Lying, Love Or Hate

  'Hero and Leander' (published 1598) First Sestiad, l. 167.

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• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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