The die is cast. [ The exclamation of Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon, Suetonius ]
Fate is character. [ William Winter ]
Lust - hard by fate. [ Milton ]
The fates oppose it.
No flying from fate. [ Proverb ]
The use of time is fate. [ Chapman ]
The heart is its own fate. [ Bailey ]
Fate is unpenetrated causes. [ Emerson ]
Yet who shall shut out fate? [ Edwin Arnold ]
Fate and one's own deservings.
No one becomes guilty by fate. [ Seneca ]
No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A man's fate is his own temper. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
There's no armour against fate. [ Shirley ]
Every one is dark fate's thrall. [ Schillerbuch ]
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Fate is ever better than design. [ Thos. Doubleday ]
I'll make assurance doubly sure,
And take a bond of fate. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
And binding nature fast in fate.
Left free the human will. [ Pope ]
Man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not - Art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow? [ Burns ]
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. [ Longfellow ]
To bear, is to conquer our fate. [ Thomas Campbell ]
We bear each one our own destiny. [ Virgil ]
The compulsion of fate is bitter. [ Wieland ]
To man, in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
When tost by tides of human fate,
To anchor fast in heaven. [ Watts ]
Following what is decreed by fate. [ Motto ]
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]
We can only obey our own polarity. [ Emerson ]
He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis Of Montrose ]
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [ Ariosto ]
Man blindly works the will of fate. [ Wieland ]
One common fate we both must prove;
You die with envy, I with love. [ Gay ]
Fame and censure with a tether
By fate are always linked together. [ Swift ]
Fate is known to us as limitations. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Press on! a better fate awaits thee. [ Victor Hugo ]
How blest the humble cotter's fate!
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth, and state,
Can never make them eerie. [ Burns ]
It is writ on Paradise's gate,
Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate! [ Hafiz ]
Here's a sigh for those who love me,
And a smile for those who hate,
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate. [ Byron ]
Monuments, like men, submit to fate. [ Pope ]
The envied have a brilliant fate;
Pity is given where griefs are great. [ Palladas ]
Fate and necessity are unconquerable. [ Joubert ]
When fate summons, monarchs must obey. [ Dryden ]
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]
I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]
But what fate does, let fate answer for. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]
But blind to former as to future fate.
What mortal knows his preexistent state? [ Pope ]
There is no striving against one's fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
In thy breast are the stars of thy fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
From no place can you exclude the fates. [ Martial ]
O Thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fixed event of fate's remote decrees. [ Homer ]
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. [ Virgil ]
Fearless of fortune, and resigned to fate. [ Dryden ]
Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]
Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. [ Byron ]
Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. [ Homer ]
Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things,
The fall of empires and the fate of kings. [ Burns ]
With equal pace, impartial fate.
Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate. [ Horace ]
He has, I know not what
Of greatness in his looks, and of high fate
That almost awes me. [ Dryden ]
Distrust and darkness of a future state
Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate,
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ John Dryden ]
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of Fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
No pleader can pervail
Who prays against the laws of Time or Fate,
No matter how we murmur and bewail.
The robins will not build in winter hail
Nor lilacs bloom in February. Wait. [ Elizabeth Akers ]
We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As Fail. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. [ Bodenstedt ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state.
Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. [ Pope ]
But, O vain boast! Who can control his fate? [ William Shakespeare ]
Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing;
But either that or nothing must I be;
I will not live degraded. [ Byron ]
The fates glide with linked hands over life. [ Richter ]
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. [ Dryden ]
And sing to those that hold the vital shears;
And turn the adamantine spindle round,
On which the fate of gods and men is wound. [ Milton ]
Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]
Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! [ Ovid ]
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]
To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet.
Then part forever on their courses fleet. [ E. C. Stedman ]
Ill news is winged with fate, and flies apace. [ Dryden ]
Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. [ Homer ]
It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]
No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]
The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]
To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]
No one has yet evaded the fate allotted to him. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. [ Delille ]
Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. [ Proverb ]
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]
With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. [ Lowell ]
Many have reached their fate while reading fate. [ Seneca ]
Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. [ Seneca, from Cleanthes ]
Fate is a distinguished but expensive pedagogue. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. [ T. Gray ]
Those whom God to ruin has designed.
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. [ Dryden ]
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins even from the birth are misery and man. [ Pope ]
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. [ Pope ]
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart.
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. [ Johnson ]
What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid within an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us? [ William Shakespeare ]
Fulfill thy fate! Be - do - bear - and thank God. [ Bailey ]
In the drawing of the heart is the oracle of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind;
He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. [ John Dryden ]
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. [ William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Sc. 5 ]
Fate holds the strings, and men like children move
But as they're led; success is from above. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescribed - their present state. [ Pope ]
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]
Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]
It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
This day we fashion destiny, our web of fate we spin. [ Whittier ]
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed.
So shall they be fulfilled. [ Robert Browning ]
While we flee from our fate, we like fools rush on it. [ Buchanan ]
Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear. [ Lucan ]
The fate of empires depends upon the education of youth. [ Aristotle ]
There is no such thing as accident; It is fate misnamed. [ Napoleon I ]
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not. [ George Eliot ]
Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks, he is free. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]
Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate. [ Milton ]
They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep. [ Owen Meredith ]
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. [ Robert Browning ]
All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate. [ Plato ]
The slippery tops of human state, the gilded pinnacles of fate. [ Cowley ]
Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine. [ Robert Browning ]
The farthest from the fear are often Dearest to the stroke of fate. [ Young ]
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is kismet,
- fate. [ Macaulay ]
Be a man!
Bear thine own burden; never think to thrust thy fate upon another. [ Robert Browning ]
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]
That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies. [ Young ]
The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. [ Foster ]
There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. [ William Shakespeare ]
Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. [ Hindu saying ]
It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. [ Longfellow ]
Nobody can think much to bear that, which is the common fate of all men. [ Proverb ]
If you believe in fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good. [ Emerson ]
He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
And out of darkness came the hands That reach through nature, moulding men. [ Tennyson ]
'Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly for a reflection of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
How wisely fate ordained for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass.
Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. [ Davenant ]
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [ Goethe ]
Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song. [ Wordsworth ]
Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. [ Anon ]
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [ Ovid ]
Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. [ Byron ]
The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much. [ Dryden ]
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times. [ William Shakespeare ]
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. [ Joanna Baillie ]
There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate. [ Bulwer ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, - in all things ruled, mind, body, and estate. [ Crabbe ]
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. [ Voltaire ]
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. [ Herder ]
Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. [ Raupach ]
The covetous man explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. [ Saadi ]
Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. [ Ovid ]
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]
It is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to begin to be appreciated by us only after they are gone. [ Old Ger. saying ]
The wretchedness which fate has rendered voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. [ Carlyle ]
Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. [ Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar ]
Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. [ Hitopadesa ]
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. [ Landor ]
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]
Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Much wishes man for himself, and yet needs he but little; for the days are short, and limited is the fate of mortals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. [ George MacDonald ]
Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws, of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low: her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. [ Horace ]
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. [ Thackeray ]
Shun to seek what is hid in the Womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. [ Horace ]
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. [ Milton ]
We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. [ John Burroughs ]
How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]
The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. [ Hitopadesa ]
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]
The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. [ Heine ]
The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In human life there is a constant mutability; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate; life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]
O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death. [ A. de Musset ]
But since, however protracted, death will come. Why fondly study, with ingenious pains. To put it off? - To breathe a little longer is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. [ Hannah More ]
In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]
What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or, break. [ L. E. Landon ]
No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]
A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side.
If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]