George Washington Quotes

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

No one can defy fate.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

Maktub" (It is written.)

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

When it's your time, it is your time.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.