Quotes About Fate

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

All the hours wound you, the last one kills.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

There is nothing certain in a mans life but that he must lose it.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I bear a charmed life.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Everything in life is luck.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise

Life is like a story, it has an ending...