Definition of Fate

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Definition of Fate

Fate

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

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Fate Quotations

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

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

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

Love cannot save you from your own fate.
Jim Morrison

Fate Translations

fate in Afrikaans is lot
fate in Danish is bestemmelse
fate in Dutch is lotsbestemming, bestemming, lot
fate in Finnish is osa
fate in Italian is destino
fate in Latin is fatum, fortuna
fate in Norwegian is skjebne
fate in Spanish is destino

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