Quotes About Fate

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

God laughs at men's plans.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.