Fate Quotes
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
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.Jacques Delille
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.Vincent van Gogh
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
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.Joni Mitchell, song - The Last Time I Saw Richard
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004
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
Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.Unknown
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
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
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
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
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".
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
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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)
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.Theodore Roethke
The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.Daniel Defoe
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.Horace
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".
Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.Matrix, The
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
