Quotes About Fate

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

It [success] is really by mistake.

So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, added he with a smile, she will take her own. So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him.

The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.

Die! No, no!' He cried. 'It was not worth living so long, and suffering so much, to die now. Death was welcome previously when I made a resolution to meet it, many years ago. But now it would truly be conceding too much to my miserable fate. No, I want to live, I want to struggle to the end. No, I want to recover the happiness that has been taken away from me. I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows?—perhaps a few friends to reward.

The wicked do not die in that way: God seems to take them under his protection to use them as the instruments of his vengeance.

It was one of those events which decide the life of a man;

When Danglars witnessed Napoleon's return to France, he realized the full effect of the blow he had directed against Dantès: his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'.

D'Artagnan admiró de qué hilos frágiles y desconocidos están a veces suspendidos los destinos de un pueblo y la vida de los hombres.

it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.

You cannot control circumstances, my dear sir; 'man proposes, and God disposes.

Dantès descended, murmuring the supreme word of human philosophy: 'Perhaps.

I say that love is a lottery in which he who wins, wins death! You are very fortunate to have lost, believe me, my dear d'Artagnan. And if I have any counsel to give, it is, always lose!

Hush, La Carconte. It is God's pleasure that things should be so.