Fate Quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

William McFee

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Leonid Brezhnev

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

Horace

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

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

Thucydides

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

Joseph Conrad

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

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