Quotes About Fate

There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

Thou, too, sail on, O Shipof State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.