Fate Quotes

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  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.

  Les Brown

  Giving Up, Powerful, Mean

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• Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Guy, Drug

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

  Amelia Barr

  Love, Crush, Sweet

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  What's meant to be will always find a way.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  Song: She's In Love With The Boy

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• You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Life, Destiny, Thinking

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.321, Penguin

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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  If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

  Amy Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Grandchildren, Coaching

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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• The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Poison, Belts

  "The lost world; The poison belt: being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor Challenger".

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• Fate is written in the face.

  Federico Fellini

  Faces, Written

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  S. J. Perelman

  Deck, Bottom

  "The Rising Gorge". Book by S. J. Perelman, p. 183, 1961.

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Stars, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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• Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Responsibility, Destiny, Age

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• Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Want, Be Kind

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.398, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Fighting, Europe

  Henry James (2013). “Daisy Miller and An International Episode”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

  Shay Mitchell

  Life, Work, Creating

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• Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

  Joseph Butler

  Desire, Action, Should

  'Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel' (1726) no. 7

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Destiny, Funny Work, Confusion

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• Each man the architect of his own fate.

  Sallust

  Responsibility, Men, Architect

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