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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Fate

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
-- Ovid | Fate
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Fate keeps on happening.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
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!
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
There is no armor against fate.
There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

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