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Quotes About Fate

In New York you've got to have all the luck.
~ Charles Bukowski
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
~ Judith Guest
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
~ Bill Walton
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
~ Lincoln Kirstein
I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
~ Anne Tyler
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
~ Emily Dickinson
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
As ill-luck would have it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
People make their own luck.
~ David Liederman
Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.
~ James Cook
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
~ Marat Safin
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
~ Margaret Atwood
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
~ Thomas Hood
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
~ Thomas Perry
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
~ Wesley Morris
Luck, be a lady tonight.
~ Frank Loesser
you can lay your finger on the particular group of principles which made Henry Ford rich, you can equal his achievements in almost any calling for which you are suited. You are "the Master of Your Fate, the Captain of Your Soul" When poet William Ernest Henley wrote the prophetic lines, "I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul," he should have informed us that we are the Masters of our
~ Napoleon Hill
I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb