Quotes about Fate
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.
— Lady Colin Campbell
Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.
— Joseph Benavidez
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
— Sam Walton
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
— Victor Hugo
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
— JRR Tolkien
And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
— John Milton
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
— Marcus Aurelius
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
— Herman Melville
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
— Elbert Hubbard
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
— Euripides