Fate Quotes

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Unknown

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

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

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

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)

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 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

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

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

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

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff