100 Fate Quotes To Inspire Your Life’s Journey

Top 10 Quotes – Short – Famous – Deep – Inspiring – More Quotes – Takeaways – Further Readings

Here are 100 of the best fate quotes I could find.

And you will not be disappointed.

You’ll find amazing authors like:

• Marcus Aurelius
• Viktor Frankl
• Haruki Murakami
• Robert Greene
• Sadhguru
• Paulo Coelho
• Henry David Thoreau
• And many more!

I lost my girlfriend in a car accident in 2004.

So you can imagine that fate is something I’ve pondered on more than enough.

I’ve had questions like:

• Why me?
• How can I accept my fate?
• Is fate real or just a belief?
• Can we change our fate?
• Can I control my fate?
• Does everyone have a fated path?

In sum, fate is a fascinating topic.

With endless perspectives.

And I hope you’ll love the quotes as much as I do.

Enjoy!

Top 10 Fate Quotes

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Seneca

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau

Welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Marcus Aurelius

Never let your fear decide your fate. Aaron Bruno

What’s meant to be will always find a way. Trisha Yearwood

Love your fate, which is in fact your life. Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. Dante Alighieri

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude. Amy Tan

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley

Short Fate Quotes

Fate loves the fearless. James Russell Lowell

Character is fate. Heraclitus

Doing your job without whining. Marcus Aurelius

Fate pulls you in different directions. Clint Eastwood

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. E.E. Cummings

Your fate is not written in your genes. David Sinclair

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. Allen Saunders

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. Rick Riordan

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

Your fate is determined by discipline rather than desire. Unknown

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Seán O’Casey

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. Bill Paxton

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. Goldie Hawn

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Barr

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain. Rumi

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. W.H. Auden

Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves. Julius Caesar

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. Sophocles

Fate shuffles the cards and we play. Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent van Gogh

Without trials, manhood can never be built. Fateh Singh

We must not only put up with it, but love it. Marcus Aurelius

Focus determines fate. Maxime Lagacé

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Famous Fate Quotes

Think more highly of what fate has given you than of what it has denied. Baltasar Gracián

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. Henry David Thoreau

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. John Lennon

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. Charlotte Brontë

To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. Jordan Peterson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. Arthur Schopenhauer

Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate. Sun Tzu

Whatever limits us we call fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. Alexander the Great

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief objective of all technological endeavors… in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you. Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny. Carl Jung

I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive – would that I could live a thousand times! Ludwig van Beethoven

The deeds of a person become his life, become his fate. This is the law of our life. Leo Tolstoy

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail. Carl Jung

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Stop wishing for something else to happen, for a different fate. That is to live a false life. Marcus Aurelius

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

Deep Fate Quotes

Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature. Marcus Aurelius

I walk through what is natural, until the time comes to sink down and rest. Marcus Aurelius

The price you pay for resisting fate is very expensive for your inner peace. Maxime Lagacé

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices. Caroline Myss

Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. Marcus Aurelius

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. Viktor Frankl

It is easy to blame your lot in life on some outside force, to stop trying because you believe fate is against you. It is easy to think that where you were raised, how your parents treated you, or what school you went to is all that determines your future. Nothing could be further from the truth. William H. McRaven

A distinctive feature of a thinking person is submission to his fate, as opposed to the shameful struggle with it that is a characteristic feature of animals. Marcus Aurelius

There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. Chuck Palahniuk

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it. Henry Miller

Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

Most gods throw dice, but fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along. Terry Pratchett

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you have 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

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like. Lemony Snicket

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. Lisa Kleypas

To the dumb question “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: “why not?” Christopher Hitchens

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. Marcus Aurelius

Inspiring Fate Quotes

Whatever happens to you is for the good of the world. Marcus Aurelius

And in a strange twist of fate, I embraced my wounds. And the wounds started healing. Maxime Lagacé

We should do only one thing: give ourselves into the hands of God, whatever our ultimate fate. Allow that which should happen to happen. What will happen will be good. Henry Amiel

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 (Siddhartha)

Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future. Marcus Aurelius

If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become – an individual, a Master. Robert Greene

Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. Carl Sagan

Even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. Viktor Frankl

Tenacious people don’t rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working. John C. Maxwell

Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say “This is my karma,” we are actually saying “I am responsible for my life.” Sadhguru

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary. Swami Vivekananda

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything. Stephanie Garber

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others. Abdul Kalam

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Amy Tan

Stay centered by accepting whatever happens to you. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi

More Quotes About Fate

Trust that all is for the best. For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. Marcus Aurelius

You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. Robert Greene

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Henry Miller

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Haruki Murakami

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. Paulo Coelho

Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves. Marissa Meyer

It’s crap that you’re letting one bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life. Colleen Hoover

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? Marcus Aurelius

Conclusion

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life – whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts. Elizabeth Gilbert

Key Takeaways

• Accept. “Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.” Pro tip: Anger leads to misery. Acceptance leads to serenity. Choose wisely.
• Adapt. “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” Pro tip: Some things are immutable. Don’t fight them. Adapt. And move forward.
• Be responsible. “Doing your job without whining.” Pro tip: Be like Marcus Aurelius and just do the task assigned to you. Period.
• Be disciplined. “Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.” Pro tip: Take the straight path. Go from point A to B. Move steadily.
• Be grateful. “Think more highly of what fate has given you than of what it has denied.” Pro tip: Sh*t happens. But remember: Life is a miracle. YOU are a miracle.

Further Readings

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