Fate & Destiny Quotes

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

I have a feeling this is destiny. On the eve of her third marriage

Christie Brinkley

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.

Alain de Botton, On Love

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

Elizabeth Bowen

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

George Santayana

The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

Josephine Pollard

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

Whom the gods love die young.

Menander

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Mathurin Regnier

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance:

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.Lat: Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerumExtollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari

Juvenal, Satires (III, 39)

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

JeanPaul Sartre

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)