Fate Quotes - Page 39

• A wise one determines his own fate.

  Janet Morris

  Wise, Destiny, Perspective

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• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Fire, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  Samuel Beckett

  Destiny, Men, Atheism

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, May, Sometimes

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• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Destiny, Men

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

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• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Destiny, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13

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• If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Destiny, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.254, Penguin

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• I face my demons and embrace my fate.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Destiny, Faces, Demon

  Lynda Bellingham (2014). “Lost and Found: My Story”, p.317, Random House

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• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Destiny, Ends

  1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Destiny, Soul

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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• We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wall, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Revenge, Destiny, Law

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1894). “The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Life and letters”

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• Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great:
  That ample urn holds all men's names.

  Horace

  Destiny, Men, Law

  "Odes and Epodes".

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

  Boethius

  Destiny, Feet, Looks

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Destiny, Iron

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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• Fate is nonawareness.

  Jan Kott

  Destiny

  Jan Kott, Boleslaw Taborski, Edward J. Czerwinski (1987). “Eating of the Gods”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Destiny, People

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• Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Destiny, Childhood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Fate is a great accident.

  Arvo Ylppo

  Destiny, Accidents

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• Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.

  Wyatt Earp

  Running, Destiny

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

  Howard Thurman

  Destiny, Men, Doe

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

  Liz Greene

  Plato, Destiny, Names

  Liz Greene (1985). “The Astrology of Fate”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Destiny, Long, Failing

  Orison Swett Marden (1909). “Peace, Power, and Plenty”

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