Fate Quotes
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
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
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
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.Unknown
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
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.Vincent van Gogh
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
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
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
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.Aldous Huxley
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
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".
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.Horace
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.Alfred Victor Vigny
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
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
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.William McFee
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
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
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
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
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".
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
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.Homer, The Iliad
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.
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
