Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word… — Carl Jung
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl
Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can… — Amory Lovins
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. — Alexandra Kollontai
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities. — Ayn Rand
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is… — Nelson Mandela
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked… — Walter Scott
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo!… — John Burroughs
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something… — Elizabeth McCracken
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the… — Natalie Babbitt
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will… — Richard Bode
Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul. — Winston Churchill
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. — Wystan Hugh Auden
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd… — John Milton
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,… — Marsilio Ficino
The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure. — Unknown Author
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered… — Garry Kasparov
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory… — Emanuel Lasker
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for… — Horace
We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You… — Aung San Suu Kyi
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands. — Abraham Lincoln
Fate gave to man the courage of endurance. — Ludwig van Beethoven

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