No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Knut Hamsun
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
Margaret Heffernan
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
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad Iqbal
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo Ishiguro
These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the... →
Heinrich Himmler
Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
Francois Hollande
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