Fate Quotes - Page 30

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

The fate of man is man.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

I like to say I don’t believe in mystics . I don’t believe in fate. I don’t believe in destiny or kismet. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal. It's not a democracy, but it's not a tyranny. It's not like the rest of the world, the rest of Europe. There is a parliament, laws have to be made, elections are made.

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.