Fate Quotes - Page 6

• No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Taken, Men, Virtue

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Historia, XXIII. 5, 1922.

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• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

  Max Weber

  World, Disenchanted, Our Time

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Names, Fortune

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no armor against fate.

  James Shirley

  Armor

  James Shirley, “From Ajax Dirge”

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• Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

  John McLeod

  Strange, Fate And Destiny

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• 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

  Soul, Literature, Captains

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Humility, Superstitions

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

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• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Wise, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Strength, Adventurous Life

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Universal, Cycles

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Fate chooses your relations,
  you choose your friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Patience, Friends Forever

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• Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Mma, Directors

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friendship, Choices, Friends Forever

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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• Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Throat, Shakes

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “The Journals of Louisa May Alcott”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

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• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  George Eliot

  Arrows, Breasts, Pierce

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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• Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Leadership, Flames, Wind

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life Changing, Waiting, Should

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

  Bertrand Russell

  Form, Idealism, Idealist

  Marriage and Morals ch. 7 (1929)

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

  Euripides

  Men, Stronger, Exaltation

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

  Booth Tarkington

  Passion, Destiny, Constant

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.284, Booklassic

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• In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

  Horst Kohler

  Our World, Views, Humanity

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• Life calls the tune, we dance.

  John Galsworthy

  Destiny, Tunes, Free Will

  John Galsworthy “Five Tales”, Lulu.com

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

  William James

  Evil, Spinning, Undone

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Character and fate are two words for the same thing

  Novalis

  Character, Two, Literature

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• Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Suffering, Hammers

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