Fate quotes and words of wisdom

"Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night."
William Blake


"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


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


"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt


"How fortune brings to earth the oversure!"
Francesco Petrarca Petrarch


"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


"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


"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


"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


"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
Albert Camus


"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


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


"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."
Proverb


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


"Whatever limits us, we call Fate."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"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


"Yet I argue not Against Heav"n"s hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward."
John Milton


Interesting Quotes

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.E.V. Lucas