The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Fate Quotes
Shakespeare leads again, with Homer, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Bulwer-Lytton and Dryden following. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) asks whether helpless man must roll darkling down the torrent of his fate, and Shelley’s Song to the Men of England (1819) turns the idea into a complaint about labour: the seed ye sow another reaps. Longfellow’s lines from 1842 are the gentler pick, about no one being so accursed by fate that no heart responds to his.
Three entries are flagged misattributed: a sentence of Matthew Arnold’s about things being what they are and consequences being what they will be, a line about dying too well known and still unknown to oneself credited to Francis Bacon, and a remark on providence and final causes credited to Alexander Pope.
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
So, march away; and let due praise be given
Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.
Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.
Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
"When you are connected to your destiny, nothing and nothing can stop you."
Preserve my memory, since fate has not given me life enough for the country to know my name.