Fate famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
-- Aaron Hill -
But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.
-- Abbi Glines -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
-- Abraham Clark -
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
-- Abraham Cowley -
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 -
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
-- Aeschylus -
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
-- Agnes Repplier -
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?
-- Ai Yazawa -
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
-- Ai Yazawa -
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.
-- Aimee Friedman -
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
-- Akio Morita -
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
-- Akio Morita -
So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
-- Al Goldstein -
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
-- Alan Lightman -
There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye
-- Albert Camus -
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
-- Albert Camus -
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
-- Albert Camus -
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
-- Albert Camus -
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
-- Albert Camus -
To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
-- Alcuin -
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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 -
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
-- Alex Grey -
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
-- Alex Haley -
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
-- Alex Steffen -
If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!
-- Alexander Anderson -
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
-- Alexander Fleming -
States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
-- Alexander Pope -
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
-- Alexander Pope -
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
-- Alexander Pope -
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
-- Alexander Pope -
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
-- Alexander Pope -
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.
-- Alexander the Great -
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
-- Alexandra Kollontai -
Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
-- Alfred Adler -
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
-- Alfred Adler -
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
-- Alfred Jodl -
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.
-- Allan Pinkerton -
I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...
-- Alyson Noel -
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
I want you to be happy, you're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that could have been. I'll always have the memories. She'll always have you. Fate has a way of changing just when you don't want it to. Throw away the chains, let love fly away. Till love comes again, I'll be okay.
-- Amanda Marshall -
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Amelia Barr -
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
-- Amelia Barr -
Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
-- Amish Tripathi -
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
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 be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.
-- Amory Lovins -
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
-- Amos Oz -
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
-- Amy Tan -
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
-- Amy Tan -
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
-- Amy Tan -
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
-- Amy Tan -
I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
-- Amy Winehouse -
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
-- Anais Nin -
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
-- Anatole France -
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
-- Andre Breton -
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?
-- Andre Breton -
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
-- Andrei Voznesensky -
Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.
-- Andrew Gamble -
The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
-- Andrew Jackson -
For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!
-- Andrew Johnson -
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
-- Andrew Marvell
