Quotes about Fate

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I have the 'L'.You have the 'O'.Fate has the 'V'.Together we have the 'E'.How then can we deny we are in LOVE?

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

The sure path can only lead to death.

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.