Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Bocelli

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Aesop

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Aeschylus

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Aeschylus

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Aeschylus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Abraham Clark

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Abraham Cowley

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Abraham Cowley

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Abraham Maslow

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

Alexander Hamilton

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Alex Steffen

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Aberjhani

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Aberjhani

As goes love so goes life.

Clive James

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

e. e. cummings

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

Douglas Coupland

Wilcox Fate is for losers.

Douglas Coupland

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Douglas Coupland

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

Dorothy Dunnett

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Albert Camus

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

A fate is not a punishment.

Albert Camus

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

Albert Camus

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Albert Camus

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Albert Camus

Fate is not in man but around him

Czeslaw Milosz

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

D. H. Lawrence

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

D. H. Lawrence

Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. . . . The creative spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

Clint Eastwood

Fate pulls you in different directions

Clarence Darrow

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Daniel Defoe

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

David Archuleta

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing