Quotes About Fate

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!

Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.

The ides of March are come.

A plague o' both your houses.

Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

We must endure what fortune sends.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

We create our fate every day we live.

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Opportunity knocks but once.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

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

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.