I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
—G. K. Chesterton
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
—Homer
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
—J. K. Rowling
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
—Jacques Delille
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
—John Fletcher
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
—Madonna
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
—Seneca
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
—Seneca
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
—William McFee
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
—William Shakespeare
Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
—Unknown
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
—C. Wright Mills
I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.
—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit