Quotes About Fate

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.