Fate Quotes

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

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

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

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.

Control your fate or somebody else will

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

For man is man and master of his fate.

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

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.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.