These fate quotes will inspire you. Fate, destiny, lot, portion, doom mean a predetermined state or end. fate implies an inevitable and usually an adverse outcome.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fate quotes, fate sayings, and fate proverbs.
Inspirational Fate Quotes
- “Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.” ~ Les Brown
- “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” ~ Goldie Hawn
- “Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.” Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.” ~ Joseph Campbell , Love fate quotes
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“What’s meant to be will always find a way.” ~ Trisha Yearwood
- “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” ~ Amy Tan
- “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.” ~ John Lennon
- “When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” ~ Alexander the Great
- “We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
- “Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.” ~ Omar Khayyam
- “But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.” ~ Salman Rushdie
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“Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.” ~ Lisa Kleypas
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“Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “If you do not create your destiny,
you will have your fate inflicted upon you.” ~ William Irwin Thompson - “It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.” ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
- “The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.” ~ Shinichi Suzuki
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“A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.” ~ Jose Ferrer
- “It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.” ~ Joseph Conrad , Waiting fate quotes
- “Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.” ~ Leonid Brezhnev
- “The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.” ~ Joseph Addison
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“It is the fate of operating systems to become free.” ~ Neal Stephenson
- “I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.” ~ Abraham Cowley
- “When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.” ~ John Bates Clark
- “In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.” ~ Jim Sensenbrenner
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“The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.” ~ Robert Breault
- “The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.” ~ Robert Breault
- “It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.” ~ Robert Breault
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“Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.” ~ Robert Breault
- “I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.” ~ Tom Baker
- “Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don’t have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.” ~ Alfred Armand Montapert
- “Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.” ~ Horace
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“I’m a very big believer in fate.” ~ Christopher Atkins
- “Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.” ~ William Cowper
- “Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn’t fall in love or have babies or be who we are.” ~ Michael Patrick King
- “I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.” ~ Fannie Flagg
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“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” ~ Carl Jung
- “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
- “It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.” ~ Christopher Marlowe
- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” ~ Stephen Hawking
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“Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.” ~ Appius Claudius Caecus
- “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.” ~ O. Henry
- “Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.” ~ Muhammad Iqbal
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“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.” ~ Voltaire
- “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.” ~ William Butler Yeats
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“Men at some time are the masters of their fate.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” ~ Plutarch
- “He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.” ~ Diana Trilling
- “Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.” ~ Zeno of Citium
- “No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.” ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
