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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

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

Control your fate or somebody else will

Heinrich von Pierer

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Helen Keller

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Bob Dylan

Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events connected with the fate of my people, the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred.

Chief Seattle

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Lajos Kossuth†

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun Tzu

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Walter Kaufmann

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

John Burroughs

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Sir Robert Baden-Powell

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Edward Young

A missions conference is a church in a Business Meeting deciding the fate of the heathen.

Anonymous

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

Kofi Atta Annan

I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that.

Caroline Dhavernas

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Carl Gustav Jung

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