Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

James Fallows

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

Laura Hillenbrand

Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

Friedrich Schiller

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Helen Hayes

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Hector Elizondo

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Henry Ford

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

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

Jacob Bronowski

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Craig Venter

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

This is all remarkable. Our humble telescopes are determining the fate of the universe.

John Dryden

All humane things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.

a jury we'd like to have sit on our own fate were we ever in such a position.

Elizabeth Smart

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Eric Hoffer

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

James F. Cooper

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Jacques Monod

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

Jon Meacham

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Lucan

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

John Scott

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

Sophocles

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!