Fate Quotes - Page 35

• He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

  Plautus

  Life, Falling In Love, Rocks

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• Where shall the lover rest,
  Whom the fates sever
  From his true maiden's breast,
  Parted for ever?
  Where, through groves deep and high,
  Sounds the far billow,
  Where early violets die,
  Under the willow.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Sound, Violet

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.48

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• We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Ubuntu, Humanity

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• One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Jobs, Politics, Facts

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Sacrifice, Men, Innocent Man

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate from the first nanosecond of creation to the last 10^10 years, on the basis of three or four facts which are not very accurately known and are disputed among the experts.

  John N. Bahcall

  Believe, Science, Men

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• Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Destiny, People

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Confidence, Good Luck, Thinking

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• As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Destiny, Thinking

  Brian Tracy (2009). “The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Courage, Enemy

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

  Carl Jung

  Integrity, Spirituality, Consciousness

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

  Jimmy Carter

  Moving, Community, Together

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Evil, Vices

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, May, Determined

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• One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Destiny, Errors

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Hard Work, Science, Power

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• [In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.

  Max Weber

  Hard Work, Science, Years

  Max Weber, David S. Owen, Tracy B. Strong (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

  Arthur Helps

  Mistake, Humility, Important Events

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Humility, Credit, World

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

  Elias Canetti

  Atheist, Grief, Would Be

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

  Aberjhani

  Voting, Humanity, Sooner Or Later

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Kofi Annan

  Lying, Ideas, Humanity

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Country, Military, War

  "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

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