Top 85 Fate Quotes

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Fate is the idea that you have a destiny and that no matter what you do in your life, you can’t change the final destination. With that in mind, check out the top 85 fate quotes.

#85 – 80. Fate Quotes

85. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. – William James

84. Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. – Francis Bacon

83. Fate is a train roaring down the track of life. Sometimes you step off the track, and unless you look back over your shoulder and see the train go roaring past, you don’t know what you missed. – Brenda Warneka

82. Fate is not quite as strange as it appears! – John McLeod

81. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. – Ronald Reagan

80. When we are born, no one immediately knows our destiny or outcome in life, save the Creator Himself, but while we are here, we too can choose and direct ourselves onto a path to better our circumstances. – Carey W. Digsby Jr

#79 – 70. Fate Quotes

79. How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. – Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

78. I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. – Paulo Coelho

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

76. What’s meant to be will always find a way. – Trisha Yearwood

75. I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. – Vincent Van Gogh

74. We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. – Karl Popper

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

72. Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully. – Albert Camus

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

70. Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but ourselves. – Olehile Fischer Thataone

#69 – 60. Fate Quotes

69. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. – Voltaire

68. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. – Marcellinus Ammianus

67. The best path through life is the highway. – Henri Frederic Amiel

66. How you feel and how you react is in direct relation to how you think. Some people let random circumstances predict their day. – Catherine Pulsifer

65. We create our fate every day we live. – Henry Miller

64. Everything happens when it’s supposed to. – Michelle C. Ustaszeski

63. Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour. – Ovid

62. If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. – Yiddish Proverb

61. As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence. – Ronald Harmon

60. Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. – James Allen

#59 – 50. Fate Quotes

59. Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent … ‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise. – John Webster

58. Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant. – Seneca

57. Tenacious people don’t rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working. – John C. Maxwell

56. Fate means seeing the hand of God move clearly through your life, even with your eyes closed. – Rusty Fischer

55. Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface. – Bhartrhari

54. For such is God our God, forever and ever. He will guide us until death. – Psalm 48:14

53. Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. – Richard Bach

52. You cannot be lost on a road that is straight. – Proverb

51. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. – Francis Bacon

50. It is better to run back than run the wrong way. – Proverb

#49 – 40. Fate Quotes

49. What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. – William Shakespeare

48. One must either be the hammer or the anvil. – Proverb

47. Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

45. Ask for the old paths, where the way is good, and walk in it. – Bible

44. Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

43. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105

42. Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. – Lord Byron

41. One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. – Proverb

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

#39 – 30. Fate Quotes

39. 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. – Voltaire

38. Each man is the architect of his own fate. – Appius Claudius

37. This is how life works. We are neither the authors nor the pawns of our life stories but rather partners somehow with fate or destiny or circumstance or providence. – John Ortberg

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

35. Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. – Arabic Proverb

34. Life is uncertain, the future unknown. This is neither good nor bad. It just is, like gravity. Yet the task remains: how to master our own fate, even so. Jim Collins; Morten T. Hansen, Great by Choice

33. Step by step one goes very far. – Proverb

32. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. – Psalm 25:12

31. It is a sign of all those cowards who say, “This is my bad luck and I will have to accept it.” A positive thinker would say, “I will decide my fate and my own destiny.” – Bill Mcdowell

30. It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is over-rul’d by fate. – Christopher Marlowe

#29 – 20. Fate Quotes

29. A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like. – Lemony Snicket

27. When I was younger, things happened in my life that made me wonder if they were a coincidence or was it fate? And now, as the years have passed, I strongly believe everything happens for a reason. – Catherine Pulsifer

26. He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. – Proverb

25. If fortune smiles, who doesn’t? If fortune doesn’t, who does? – Chinese Proverb

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

23. Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. – Euripedes

22. Many men would take the death sentence without a whimper to escape the life sentence which Fate carries in her hand. – T.E. Lawrence

21. Fate – everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens look for the good in it as it is there! – Catherine Pulsifer

20. We are partners by fate. We become friends by choice. – Jacquie McTaggart

#19 – 10. Fate Quotes

19. Maybe Fate isn’t the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.  – Jodi Picoult

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

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

16. If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. – Chinese Proverb

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

14. 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. – Marcus Aurelius

13. The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. – James Allen

12. Who then is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. – Psalm 25:12

11. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. – Mary Kay

10. Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. – Seneca                   

#9 – 1. Fate Quotes

9. Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. – Groucho Marx

8. Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon

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

6. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. – Thomas Jefferson

5. Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny. – Proverb

4. Actions are the seed of fate. – Harry S Truman

3. Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. -Marcus Aurelius

2. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. – Samuel Beckett

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