Character and fate are two words for the same thing. (Quote by - Novalis)

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Quote by - Seneca)

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like. (Quote by - Sam Waterston)

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us. (Quote by - Heinrich Himmler)

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. (Quote by - Stefan Zweig)

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. (Quote by - John Dryden)

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. (Quote by - Knut Hamsun)

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. (Quote by - Confucius)

We create our fate every day we live. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)

Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but ourselves. (Quote by - Olehile Fischer Thataone)

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. (Quote by - Algernon Sydney)

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. (Quote by - John Desmond Bernal)

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)

Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst. (Quote by - Ebenezer Elliott)

Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. (Quote by - Robert Greene)

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. (Quote by - Robin Wright Penn)

Hitch your wagon to a star. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. (Quote by - Les Brown)