No Fate Quotes

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers.

A man's fate is his own temper.

But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

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.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Fate operates when people give up

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

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.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

There is no armor against fate.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.