What happens to a person is determined by their fate. — Turkish Proverbs
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. — Plutarch
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. — Duke Ellington
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds. — Lisa Kleypas
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. — Seneca
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot. — Hungarian Proverbs
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in rolling tides — Irish Proverbs
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. — Epicurus
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J. Peter
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. — Sophocles
Bad Fortune Quotes
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. — Hermann Hesse
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. — Horace
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far. — Fumihiko Maki
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. — Sheri S. Tepper
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. — Joshua Prager
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. — Aristotle
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable. — Trey Gowdy
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. — Boethius
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. — Jules Renard
Bad Luck Quotes
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it — Roald Amundsen
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. — Christopher Isherwood
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
From the rain, straight under the drainpipe. — Polish Proverbs
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! — Dr. Seuss
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. — Joan Lowery Nixon
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. — Orson Welles
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true. — Jack Kerouac
Cruel Fate Quotes
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait. — A. B. Simpson
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. — H. G. Wells
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! — Samuel Beckett
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come — Samuel Beckett
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! — Samuel Beckett
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not. — Samuel Beckett
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. — Lisa Kleypas
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate. — Albert Einstein
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them. — Nelson Mandela
Twist Of Fate Quotes
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. — Donald Trump
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. — Tom Hiddleston
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. — Jim Sensenbrenner
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life. — Bill Walton
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. — Ann Patchett
let me forget about today until tomorrow — Bob Dylan
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. — John Perkins
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands — Bob Dylan
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are — John Perkins
I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to adapt... We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it’s how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man. — Larry Fessenden
Fate Quotes
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. — Alexander The Great
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson
If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. — Dante Alighieri
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late. — Daniel Defoe
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. — Haruki Murakami
You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it. — Greg Norman
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Unknown
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Lee Iacocca
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now. — Ann Patchett
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque. — Albert Einstein
I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen. — Evgeni Plushenko
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. — Hermann Hesse
I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate? — Demetri Martin
Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate. — Mary Beard
It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life. — Colleen Hoover
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad. — Diogenes Laertius
The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. — Voltaire
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? — Jodi Picoult
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. — Herbert N. Casson
I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. — Anais Nin
Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. — William Shakespeare
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. — Margaret Atwood
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature. — Hermann Hesse
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pass. No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe. There is no solace in fatalism. — Hunter S. Thompson
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. — Robin Wright Penn
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections and implementing their beliefs. It's not fate. It's not by accident. It's not coincidence. It's not the result of cosmic forces working against us. It is because specifically of policies, legislation, ideas, whatever you want to call it, implemented, put into action by this administration. — Rush Limbaugh
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly. — Max Beerbohm
Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do. — Hermann Goring
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part — Robin Wright
The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones. — Roman Dmowski
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world. — Ellen Key
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. — Theodore Roosevelt
Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune. — John Angell James
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst. — Ebenezer Elliott
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters. — Lynda Barry
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs. — John Steinbeck
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. — Herbert Newton Casson
I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them. — Daniel Handler
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over. — John Steinbeck
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