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Category: Destiny and Fate

1. "Control your own destiny or someone else will."

Jack Welch

2. "If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."

William McFee

3. "A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

4. "Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

J. K. Rowling

5. "That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."

Martin Goldsmith

Quotations about: Life and Death

6. "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Quotations about: Various

7. "Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering."

Harriet Rosenstein

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

Aeschylus, "The Libation Bearers"

Quotations about: Justice

9. "The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Amelia E. Barr, "The Belle of Bolling Green"

Quotations about: Love

10. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Dag Hammarskjöld, "Markings"

11. "Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable."

Natalie Clifford Barney

12. "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Jawaharial Nehru

Quotations about: Life and Death

13. "It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Jean Nidetch

14. "Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays"

15. "Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare, "The Foundations of Science"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

16. "If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of 10 it will."

Paul Harvey

17. "One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Chinese proverb

18. "Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

Paul Theroux

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

19. "Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

20. "There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

Friedrich von Schiller

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21. "Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"

Doris Lessing

Quotations about: Human

22. "Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers."

Douglas Coupland, "Girlfriend in a Coma"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

23. "The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"

Quotations about: Love

24. "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Kin Hubbard

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

25. "How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."

Wilhelm von Humboldt

26. "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes. "

James D. Watson

27. "Don't let time take control of your destiny. Let your destiny take control of your time."

Ulrick Ricardo Milord

Quotations about: Time and Passing

28. "We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."

Karl Popper, "The Open Society and Its Enemies"

29. "You can't escape destiny if it has beautiful eyes."

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

30. "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

Winston Churchill

31. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Benjamin Disraeli

32. "To say that my fate is not attached to your fate is like saying "Your side of the boat is sinking.""

Anon.

33. "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."

William Somerset Maugham

Quotations about: Richness and Money

34. "Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient."

Henry Miller

35. "In all lives, there is a date where destiny forks either towards catastrophe or towards success."

François de La Rochefoucauld

36. "There is a fine line between coincidence and fate."

Anon.

37. "Fate is only for those unable to control their own futures."

Anon.

38. "We must believe in free will - we have no choice."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

39. "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

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

40. "Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

41. "The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Life and Death

42. "The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"

Quotations about: Patriotism

43. "Whatever limits us we call Fate."

George Eliot, "The Conduct of Life"

44. "Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

Henry Miller

45. "I don't want to, but I have to."

Lech Walesa


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