Fate Quotes

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

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, The Colossus of Maroussi

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

Horace

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Mei

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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 Aelius Aurelius

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

John Fletcher, 1647

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Unknown

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides

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

Albert Einstein

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

La Rochefoucauld

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell