Quotes on Fate

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: _x000D_ That ample urn holds all men's names.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.