Fate Quotes, Sayings about destiny

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
– Ovid

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
– Goethe

Control your fate or somebody else will ashesh.
– Heinrich von Pierer

Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes ‘twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.
– Edward B. Eastwick

Fate has carried me Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand– Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
– George Eliot

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?
– Bishop Joseph Butler

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome.
– Joseph Addison

So long as fortune is favoring you, your defects will remain covered.
– Hazrat Ali

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
– William Cowper

Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe’er we perpetrate, We do but row, we’re steer’d by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits.
– Samuel Butler

Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
– James Beattie

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
– Bible

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.
– Horace

We create our fate every day we live.
– Henry Miller

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
– Kamran Hamid

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
– John Dryden

The wine is poured, you should drink it.
– Thomas Campbell

Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour.
– Anonymous

Character is destiny.
– Heraclitus

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.
– Claudian