I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act. G K Chesterton
We make our own fortunes and we call them fate. Benjamin Disraeli
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself. Don Marquis
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D Roosevelt
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen
Fate keeps on happening. Anita Loos
A person’s fate is their own temper. Benjamin Disraeli
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. Plutarch
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. Pearl S Buck
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young. Duke Ellington
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand. Ivan Turgenev
Fate is never too generous – even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. Stefan Zweig
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. Zeno