Quotes About Fate And Free Will

#1. Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

Vyasa

#3. 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

#4. Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

Shannon A. Thompson

#5. To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing ... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#6. He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will
By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity;

John Milton

#7. Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

John Burroughs

#8. Life was what you determined it to be; regardless of where fate put you, logic and free will meant you could make your cabbage patch anything the fuck you wanted.

J.R. Ward

#9. In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton

#10. My destiny plays with me in such a way
I feel I play with my destiny.

Vivake Pathak

#11. Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

Yasmine Galenorn

#12. She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Tan Redding

#13. Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate.

Homer

#14. And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope

#15. The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.

Wilkie Collins

#16. I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.

Nikki Rowe

#17. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#18. For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

Aeschylus

#19. You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

Lisa See

#20. Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

Patrick McGrath

#21. There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Janny Wurts

#22. I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Lucy Hawking

#23. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.

Emily Thorne

#24. God has had His chance to free me, and for reasons known to Him alone, He has pinned me to ill fortune, and although I have struggled, I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.

Hannah Kent

#25. The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

Raheel Farooq

#26. Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

Anthon St. Maarten

#27. Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

Raheel Farooq

#28. I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Dean Koontz

#29. My fate is my own; my heart remains free
Not magic but wisdum reveals destiny.

James Moloney

#30. Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Ishmael Beah

#31. 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

#32. Fate isn't one straight road ... there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Dean Koontz

#33. As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate - - inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.

Sylvia Plath

#34. Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#35. Nothing is certain," he murmured. "The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice.

Julie Kagawa

#36. 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

#37. To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

Helen Keller

#38. You cannot change your future.

Vivake Pathak

#39. You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.

Nikki Rowe

#40. There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

Dean Koontz

#41. I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.

Nikki Rowe

#42. With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.

Frederick Lenz

#43. With every sunrise, we get to choose ... who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can't always choose our circumstances. No. The Fates do that. But we can always choose who we will be and how we will be within them.

Nicole Y. Walters

#44. It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Neal Stephenson

#45. Life calls the tune, we dance.

John Galsworthy

#46. Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Marcus Aurelius

#47. Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.

Mark Andrew Poe

#48. The universe is made up of courses of action we have no say in, but we have a say in who we are, and in those choices we make inside, even if outside, those choices seem impossible.

Dianna Hardy

#49. Fate is but a dying wish ... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

Youka Nitta

#50. Our life is determined for us
and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

George Eliot

#51. If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.

Nikki Rowe

#52. Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps and punch the readers' noses.
Rejoice, little book!
For on that day, we will be free

Joanna Russ

#53. Yeah, I'm listenin'," Morganith answered, "and Arda once told me pregnant Alteri women can see what might come to pass, not what will come to pass. What they see is just what people chose to do of their own shitty free will, not what they were forced to do by some gods.

Ash Gray

#54. I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

John Perkins

#55. I've been coerced into free will.

Brian Spellman

#56. Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. Quinn's life rested on the fate of seven Warriors who were coming to free him.

Donna Grant

#58. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.

Karen Marie Moning

#59. I may not be free, but I'm not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Johnny Rich

#60. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

Thomas Jefferson

#61. The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.

Raheel Farooq

#62. If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself ... and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

Stephen King

#63. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.

Angela Parkhurst

#64. (C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

Garth Stein

#65. Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

Raheel Farooq

#66. Fate is never unfair to anyone. We are all free to love or hate what we do.

Paulo Coelho

#67. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.

J.D. Stroube

#68. You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

Dean Koontz

#69. Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

#71. Somewhere out there, a higher
form of sadism won the first round.
Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be
pwned.

Clyde DeSouza

#72. Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.

The Adjustment Bureau

#73. I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Eric Hoffer

#74. Oh, if only this new, bright life would come sooner, when one could look one's fate directly and boldly in the eye, be conscious of one's rightness, be cheerful, free! And this life would come sooner or later!

Anton Chekhov

#75. Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Robert Breault

#76. The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

C. G. Jung

#77. I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Carlos Castaneda

#78. Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#79. Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

A.J. Messenger

#80. So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

Naomi Ragen

#81. Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Jimmy Carter

#82. Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

George Will

#83. Future is predestined and unchangeable.

Vivake Pathak

#84. Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

Juvenal