Fate Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Albert Einstein

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

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

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

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Golda Mei

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

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

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

Thucydides

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

William McFee

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Aldous Huxley

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Alfred Victor Vigny