Top 100 Our Fate Quotes
#1. We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper
#2. No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen
#3. 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
#5. Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
Jason Silva
#6. I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
Alice Hoffman
#7. I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.
Peter Porter
#9. Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
Molly Haskell
#10. Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.
Thuli Madonsela
#11. It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.
Margaret George
#12. Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.
Daniel Kehlmann
#13. How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
Thomas Harris
#14. We create our fate every day that we live.
Henry Miller
#15. Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
Thomas Sowell
#16. So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.
Michael Grant
#18. A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
Alexander Lowen
#19. Maybe he's accepted our fate as well, I tell myself and hope it's true. As much as I'm unhappy with the pairing, I hate that I must be just as much of a disappointment to him.
Shannon Duffy
#20. We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.
Jane Austen
#21. We can decide our fate every day, when we love we will be loved.
Ron Baratono
#22. Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B.C. Forbes
#23. I became obsessed with the one question-when was it, when were we, irrevocable? When did all the little tumblers fall into place and our fate was locked in and it became impossible for us to be anything other than what we became? When was the guilty moment?
Tiffany Reisz
#24. Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
Jane Hamilton
#25. It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.
George Washington
#26. We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
Albert Einstein
#27. If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want.
Anne Perry
#28. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
William O. Douglas
#29. It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishly
to those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift
Rodney Hall
#30. I believe that fate pushes in the direction we're supposed to go, but we have to chose how to go there. We get to choose the path that leads us to our fate.
Krista Lakes
#31. We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
J.K. Rowling
#32. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. our fate is determined by our actions. Day in and day out, we determine where our life will lead.
Christina George
#34. Our fate lies
in the hands
of the things we love
and sometimes
the things we love
are the things
that lead us
to the fatal destruction
of ourselves.
Robert M. Drake
#35. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.
Napoleon Hill
#36. Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#38. America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison
#40. The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.
Kyle Baker
#41. The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.
Jayne Castel
#42. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.
Clarice Lispector
#43. What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
Matt Taibbi
#44. That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#45. Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."
- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
Leo Tolstoy
#46. I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#48. The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.
John Dufresne
#49. So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#50. By Me, of course, and I hope you enjoy.
There is a road we choose to take
There are several before us
The one we choose becomes our fate
The others we could have meandered
Bonnie Jennings
#51. Why we tie our fate so closely to one person that everything we are, everything we do, hangs upon them. It seems a cruel thing that we lose not only the one we love most, but also the opportunity to endure.
Danielle L. Jensen
#52. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#53. If I had known, would I have gone back sooner? If there was an audible reshuffle and click every time my path was altered, some Jumanji-like close-up of a game piece slotting into place, would it have changed our fate? It could have been that moment or a million before it; I'll never know.
Vikki Wakefield
#55. We don't escape our pasts, you know," Madd said. He sounded defeated. "Never. We can never escape what we are."
"Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.
Tali Spencer
#56. Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
Bill Paxton
#57. They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#59. It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn
Amy Tan
#60. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert
#61. It is impossible to know how the choices we make will change the course of our future, how a small break from a relationship might seal our fate, or how an inconsequential choice over something we deem temporary could become permanent.
Ellie Wade
#62. Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Dante Alighieri
#63. Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.
Dale Carnegie
#64. If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
Max Heindel
#65. Many are poets, but without the name;
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,
Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain
George Gordon Byron
#66. Blurred is the picture,
To not know what's next!
Is it the laughter that awaits,
Or sorrows lined up to dictate.
Untold, unclear is ...
A story of our fate!
Somya Kedia
#67. Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.
Jean Kwok
#68. We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
Sue Grafton
#69. Our conduct determines our fate, not our birth
Rohit Omar
#70. Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#74. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
#75. What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate.
Raheel Farooq
#76. Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.
Don DeLillo
#77. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.
Leot Felton
#78. If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living, - then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
Johannes Kepler
#79. And yet, my girl, we weep in vain,
In vain our fate in sighs deplore;
Remembrance only can remain,
But that, will make us weep the more.
George Gordon Byron
#80. Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.
John Denham
#81. 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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. That doesn't make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into.
Ruta Sepetys
#83. I've always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God's way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.
Jonathan Hull
#84. Some times we choose our fate," she said. "Other times it's chosen for us."
The cleft between his dark brows deepened and his jaw clenched then released. "And sometimes its what we make it.
Megan Mitcham
#85. Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. That is our fate... One day we lose the person we love. Anyone who is unable to sustain that loss fails as a human being and does not deserve our sympathy.
Sandor Marai
#87. If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Tacitus
#88. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#89. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
#90. Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.
Elizabeth Smart
#91. 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
#92. Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.
Jacques Lusseyran
#94. We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not. (Sister Mira)
Brenda Cothern
#95. It seems to be our fate to continually pass our debt back and forth.
Susan Ee
#96. By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.
Carl Sagan
#97. In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
Albert Schweitzer
#98. Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely.
Sandor Marai
#99. All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.
Christopher Paolini
#100. I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've
been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting
about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've
got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts
sometimes, a bit of spark.
John Marsden
