I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Lucan

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch

Fate is like gravity. You can jump up and down until your heart�s content, but the earth still falls into the sun, and the sun still courses through the galaxy, both indifferent to your short-lived and insignificant defiance.

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

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

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

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
Author Unknown

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

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

See that fella over there? He’s 20 years old. In 10 years, he’s got a chance to be a star. Now that
fella over there, he’s 20 years old, too. In 10 years he’s got a chance to be 30.
Casey Stengel

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
Duke Ellington

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru

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

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

We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Fate is being unconsciously aware of one�s future without being brave enough to infer it. The future is known long before it is ever comprehended. Many intuitions are called but few are recognized. In fact, the irony of tragedy is that we often bring it about by being made unaware of it.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
Robert Morgenthau

Whatever happened to anyone else could happen to you and to me – And the end of my youth was the possible truth that it all happens randomly.
Indigo Girls

A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Henry Ward Beecher

Control your fate or somebody else will.
Heinrich von Pierer

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William R. Alger

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

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

What need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder.
William Shakespeare

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
Sun Tzu

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Publilius Syrus

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wherever fate demands me… I will go.
Gertudis Gomez

Fate is a misconseption, it’s only a cover-up for the fact you don’t have control over your own life.

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other hand, he lives with an awareness of tragic fate. This is a paradox.
Imre Kertesz

Fate only takes you so far, then it’s up to you to make it happen.

There is no fate but your own fate.
Leslie Grimutter

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein