Fate Quotes

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

Daniel Defoe

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

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

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".

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

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

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.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

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

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

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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)

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

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Alfred Victor Vigny