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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us we call fate.
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune
Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and F
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Muriac
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux, The Voices of Sil
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad, Chance
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Catherine Booth
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Madame Chiang KaiShek
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Yiddish Proverb