Fate Quotes
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For man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred the Great
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
Karen Rose
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
Sarah Dessen
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The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
Thomas Sowell
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Euripides
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The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
Isoroku Yamamoto
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Seneca the Younger
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift
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As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.
Bel Kaufman
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
Saul Bellow
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
Georges Pompidou
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You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.
Barack Obama
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The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.
Shinichi Suzuki
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One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.
George Hackenschmidt
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I think that my fate could be very different if there were no family and children.
Ornella Muti
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No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.
Bryan Lourd
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It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
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Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.
Alexandra Sokoloff
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Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
Haruki Murakami
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
Sigmund Freud
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
Euripides