Fate Quotes

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

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

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

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

Daniel Defoe

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".

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

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

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

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

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