Quote: Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Men at sometime are the masters of their fate. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: There is no armor against fate. Author: James Shirley 1596-1666, British Playwright
Quote: Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. Author: Citium Zeno 335?-264 B.C., Greek Philosopher
Quote: Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Quote: Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs. Author: Campbell
Quote: The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome. Author: John Jay Chapman 1862-1933, American Author
Quote: Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.'' Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: We make our fortunes and we call them fate. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Whatever limits us we call fate. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great. Author: Richard Hovey 1869-1900, American Poet
Quote: Chance generally favors the prudent. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate! Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Fate keeps on happening. Author: Anita Loos 1893-1981, American Novelist, Screenwriter
Quote: Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. Author: Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic
Quote: The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Author: MoliFre 1622-1673, French Playwright
Quote: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round. Author: Josephine Pollard 1843-1892, American Poet
Quote: Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: One must either be the hammer or the anvil. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: Every one is the architect of his own fortune. Author: Mathurin Regnier 1573-1613, French Poet
Quote: Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian