Fate

Fortune's a right whore If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask 'Why me' Then a voice answers 'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.'

- Charles M. Schulz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

- Albert Camus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What fates impose, that men must needs abide It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He thanked me, observing that there were days when you lay on your back and the sky rained apples while there were other days when you wore your fingers down to the first joint to catch a flea. Such was Fortune

- George Meredith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

- Lord Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

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We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

- Benjamin Disraeli Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

- Theodore Roethke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

- Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

- James Russell Lowell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

- Robert Brustein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

- Charles Schultz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

- Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

- Javan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no Fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

- Herbert N. Casson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every night and every morn some to misery are born Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight.

- William Blake Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How fortune brings to earth the oversure

- Francesco Petrarca Petrarch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

- Edward Morgan 'E. M.' Forster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

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