Quotes about Fate
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
— Abraham Lincoln
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
— Laurence Sterne
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
— Mark Twain
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Marriages are made in Heaven.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
— Paul Ricoeur
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.
— Ronald Reagan
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
— George Eliot