Fate Quotes

If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the one set out for him by God, could God dream a fate greater than his own?

Michael Anthony

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

It is a long road from conception to completion.

Molière

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

Sophie Rostopchine Sigur

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

The Koran

When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.

Persian Proverb

The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Charles Dickens

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Bob Dylan

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

That that is is.

William Shakespeare

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Marcus Aurelius

Certain signs precede certain events.

Cicero

Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution.""You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

Rosemary Edghill

Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have power over our minds, we find strength, and that helps us float high along the forces of fate that order our motions within shapeless space.