Quotes About Fate

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

Each man's character shapes his fortunes.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

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

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.