Quotes About Fate

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

A man can die but once.