Friday, April 8, 2011

Fate Quotes and Sayings

 I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.

 Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

 Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try

 If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

 Fate is not quite as strange as it appears
 What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

 Man’s character is his fate.

 Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not

 Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

 Fate – everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens look for the good in it as it is there.

 Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour.
 Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

 Do not worry about the future for it is not yet come. Live each day in the present and make it beautiful.

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

 Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

 A true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate

 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

 The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

 Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
 Destiny has two ways of crushing us…. by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

 Each man is the architect of his own fate.

 Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

 It is a fundamental error to try to subject our own fate at call costs to our will. Our will is a function regulated by reflection; hence it is dependent on the quality of that reflection.

 When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make a lemonade.

 He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

 Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
 Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

 Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived ?

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

 The man of the past is alive in us today to a degree undreamt of before the war, and in the last analysis what is the fate of great nations but a summation of the psychic changes in individuals ?

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

 I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

 The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

 Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.