Fate Quotes
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
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".
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
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
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".
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
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 ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.Joseph Conrad
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.Matrix, The
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.Horace
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
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
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
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
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
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
We make our fortunes and call them fate.Benjamin Disraeli
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
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
Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.Unknown
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.Wilhelm von Humboldt
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
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
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
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
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.William McFee
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
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
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
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
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
