Fate

(256 votes)   The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(245 votes)   Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(190 votes)   We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(185 votes)   There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(168 votes)   Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(158 votes)   One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(128 votes)   Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(88 votes)   Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(87 votes)   The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(86 votes)   Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

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(86 votes)   Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(77 votes)   Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(76 votes)   When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(73 votes)   Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(67 votes)   Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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