Quotes About Fate

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

We do not choose love. It claims each man as it will.

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

For man is man and master of his fate.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

The future does not belong to men.

Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" "But no living man am I!