Quotes About Fate

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.