Quotes on Fate

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

A man's character is his fate.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly_x000D_ _x000D_ From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,_x000D_ _x000D_ Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,_x000D_ _x000D_ In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,_x000D_ _x000D_ Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;_x000D_ _x000D_ And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last_x000D_ _x000D_ The speed that spins the future and the past:_x000D_ _x000D_ And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,_x000D_ _x000D_ Awful eternity shall reign alone.

Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.