Quotes about Fate
God save us from ever ending, though billions have./ The world is blanketed by foregone deaths,/ small beads of ego, bright with appetite,/ whose pin-sized prick of light winked out,/ bequeathing Earth a jagged coral shelf/ unseen beneath the black unheeding waves.
- John Updike
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
- Publilius Syrus
It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
- Paulo Coelho
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
- Muhammad Ali
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
- Wayne Dyer
Everything in life is luck.
- Donald Trump
No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
- Marcus Aurelius
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
- Steven Pressfield