Quotes About Fate

Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that's nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.

Nobody can ask to have their life declared invalid, and demand that the dice be thrown afresh. There is no going back.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

Il a passé sa vie à sauter d'une plaque de glace à une autre sur ce fleuve gelé qui l'emporte inexorablement vers les eaux noires.

for the destiny of all men lay in the hands which could administer or withhold the sacraments essential to salvation. Thus intrusted with responsibility for the fate of mankind, it was necessary that the Church should possess the powers and the machinery requisite for the due discharge of a trust so unspeakably important.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

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

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viešoji nuomon? - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, k? žmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba grei?iau rodo jo likim?.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond together.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

You conquer fate by thought.

Ce qu'un homme pense de lui-même, voilà ce qui règle ou plutôt indique son destin.

How meanly and miserably we live for the most part! We escape fate continually by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is. We are practically desperate. What kind of gift is life unless we have spirits to enjoy it and taste its true flavor?

Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

L'opinione pubblica è un tiranno assai debole, paragonata alla nostra opinione personale. Ciò che determina o piuttosto indica il fato di un uomo è l'opinione che egli ha di se stesso.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination

By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

O que um homem pensa de si, eis o que determina, ou pelo menos indica, o seu destino.

Ciò che un uomo pensa di se stesso, è quello che determina, o piuttosto indica, il suo destino.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

the arrows of fortune ….. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief.