Fate is the belief in a predetermined course of events, an unavoidable future that is set by an external, uncontrollable power, or a cosmic law. It also says that all events in a person's life are predetermined and inevitable, and thus their future is already fixed, irrespective of their free will or choices. May these famous quotes about fate in life give you valuable insights that will help you gain your own perspective on fate.
1. “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.” – John Lennon
2. “Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.” – Stephanie Garber
3. “When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.” – Carl Gustav Jung
4. “But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.” – Marisa de los Santos
5. “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.” – Lemony Snicket
6. “Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.” – Charlotte Bronte
7. “Perhaps fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.” – Laini Taylor
8. “Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.” – Amy Tan
9. “The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.” – L. Bark
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10. “Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?” – Nicholas Sparks
11. “Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate.” – Rick Riordan
12. “Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.” – Horace
13. “Do not be afraid, our fate cannot be taken from us, it is a gift.” – Dante Alighieri
14. “Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” – Bryce Courtenay
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15. “Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.” – Jean Kwok
16. “Not even need and love can defeat fate.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
17. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” – Fannie Flagg
18. “We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” – J.K. Rowling
19. “It doesn't matter if we don't mean to do the things we do. It doesn't mean if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn't even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid
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20. “It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau
21. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha
22. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. “It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.” – Robin McKinley
24. “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.” – Julia Glass
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25. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” – Goldie Hawn
26. “Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.” – Crystal Woods
27. “We create our fate every day, most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.” – Henry Miller
28. “Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.” – Lisa Kleypas
29. “Fate loves the fearless.” – James Russell Lowell
30. “When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust him.” – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
More Best Fate Quotes about Life
31. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius
32. “To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply 'Why not?'” – Christopher Hitchens
33. “The future was with Fate. The present was our own.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
34. “Some things are destined to be, it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” – J.R. Ward
35. “We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.” – Philip Pullman
36. “Where we choose to be, where we choose to be, we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.” – Sena Jeter Naslund
37. “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.” – Marissa Meyer
38. “Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive.” – Cassandra Clare
39. “Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.” – Deanna Raybourn
40. “Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you. I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.” – Gayle Forman
41. “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” – Seneca
42. “I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny. ” – Nelson Mandela
43. “I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.” – Paulo Coelho
44. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” – Albert Camus
46. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
47. “Fate is a train roaring down the track of life. Sometimes you step off the track, and unless you look back over your shoulder and see the train go roaring past, you don't know what you missed.” – Brenda Warneka
48. “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” – Joan of Arc
49. “First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.” – Wayne Dyer
50. “I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.” – Fala Chen
51. “Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S. Truman
52. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” – Alexander the Great
53. “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” – Buddha
54. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – D.H. Lawrence
55. “There is no such thing as fate, you choose which path you walk down.” – Anonymous
56. “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” – Donald Trump
57. “Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists.” – Plutarch
58. “Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “To change your fate, you must first change yourself, as it is you that creates your fate.” – Anonymous
60. “Each man is the architect of his own fate.” – Appius Claudius Caecus
61. “A man's character is his fate.” – Heraclitus
62. “Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
63. “There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
64. “I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
65. “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.” – Robert Browning
66. “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
67. “I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.” – Rob Zombie
68. “When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” – Dale Carnegie
69. “My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.” – Aldous Huxley
70. “The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.” – Daniel Defoe
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2. “Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.” – Stephanie Garber
3. “When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.” – Carl Gustav Jung
4. “But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.” – Marisa de los Santos
5. “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.” – Lemony Snicket
6. “Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.” – Charlotte Bronte
7. “Perhaps fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.” – Laini Taylor
8. “Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.” – Amy Tan
9. “The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.” – L. Bark
11. “Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate.” – Rick Riordan
12. “Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.” – Horace
13. “Do not be afraid, our fate cannot be taken from us, it is a gift.” – Dante Alighieri
14. “Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” – Bryce Courtenay
16. “Not even need and love can defeat fate.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
17. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” – Fannie Flagg
18. “We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” – J.K. Rowling
19. “It doesn't matter if we don't mean to do the things we do. It doesn't mean if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn't even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid
21. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha
22. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. “It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.” – Robin McKinley
24. “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.” – Julia Glass
26. “Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.” – Crystal Woods
27. “We create our fate every day, most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.” – Henry Miller
28. “Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.” – Lisa Kleypas
29. “Fate loves the fearless.” – James Russell Lowell
30. “When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust him.” – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
More Best Fate Quotes about Life
31. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius
32. “To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply 'Why not?'” – Christopher Hitchens
33. “The future was with Fate. The present was our own.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
34. “Some things are destined to be, it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” – J.R. Ward
35. “We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.” – Philip Pullman
36. “Where we choose to be, where we choose to be, we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.” – Sena Jeter Naslund
37. “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.” – Marissa Meyer
38. “Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive.” – Cassandra Clare
39. “Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.” – Deanna Raybourn
40. “Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you. I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.” – Gayle Forman
41. “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” – Seneca
42. “I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny. ” – Nelson Mandela
43. “I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.” – Paulo Coelho
44. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” – Albert Camus
46. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
47. “Fate is a train roaring down the track of life. Sometimes you step off the track, and unless you look back over your shoulder and see the train go roaring past, you don't know what you missed.” – Brenda Warneka
48. “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” – Joan of Arc
49. “First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.” – Wayne Dyer
50. “I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.” – Fala Chen
51. “Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S. Truman
52. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” – Alexander the Great
53. “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” – Buddha
54. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – D.H. Lawrence
55. “There is no such thing as fate, you choose which path you walk down.” – Anonymous
56. “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” – Donald Trump
57. “Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists.” – Plutarch
58. “Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “To change your fate, you must first change yourself, as it is you that creates your fate.” – Anonymous
60. “Each man is the architect of his own fate.” – Appius Claudius Caecus
61. “A man's character is his fate.” – Heraclitus
62. “Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
63. “There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
64. “I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
65. “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.” – Robert Browning
66. “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
67. “I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.” – Rob Zombie
68. “When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” – Dale Carnegie
69. “My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.” – Aldous Huxley
70. “The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.” – Daniel Defoe
Share these Inspirational Fate Quotes and Sayings with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.