Fate Quotes

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

Daniel Defoe

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Matrix, The

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

William McFee

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

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.

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 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 fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

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

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

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

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

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley