Famous Fate Quotes

'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
-- John Dryden

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

All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
-- John Dryden

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
-- Bible

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
-- Bible

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
-- Seneca

Chance generally favors the prudent.
-- Joseph Joubert

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
-- Mathurin Regnier

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
-- Ovid

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
-- George Eliot

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

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

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

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
-- Seneca

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

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
-- Mary Renault

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
-- Charles Dickens

Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
-- Lord Byron

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer