Fate Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. (Sun Tzu)
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
A man's character is his fate. View quote
Heraclitus
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. View quote
Albert Einstein
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate will find a way. View quote
Virgil
All art is a revolt against man's fate. View quote
André Malraux
One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. (Albert Camus)
Love cannot save you from your own fate. View quote
Jim Morrison
Whatever limits us we call fate. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. View quote
Jacques Delille
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. View quote
Groucho Marx
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. View quote
Franz von Papen
Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. (Henry James)
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. View quote
Helen Hayes
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. View quote
John Dryden