Quotes About Fate

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

A man must know his destiny.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

A real man makes his own luck.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.