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Fate Quotes

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Donald Trump

Fate throws fortune, but not everyone catches.
Polish Proverb

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever limits us we call fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
William Shakespeare

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
Danish Proverb

We seal our fate with the choices we make.
Gloria Estefan

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life – for lots of people.
Tom Baker

Control your fate or somebody else will.
Heinrich von Pierer

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Gustav Jung

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
Diana Trilling

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no armour against fate.
James Shirley

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Kamran Hamid

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Goethe

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
Diana Trilling

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli

Fate laughs at probabilities.
E.G. Bulwer-Lytton

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.
Horace

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
William Penn

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Virgil

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan

What’s meant to be will find a way.
Unknown Author

If you don’t make things happen, things will happen to you.
Lanes Company

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson

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  1. ES says

    Here is my favorite from the list of quotes given above: “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”



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