It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.