Quotes about Fate

Lucky is the man who dies at work.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

The encounter and separation, for all its wildness, is typical of the sufferings of love. For when a heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.