Quotes About Fate

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Every passion has its destiny.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.