(517 quotes found)
“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself”
Douglas Coupland
“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
John Dryden
“Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.”
Peter F. Drucker
“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”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away”
Sex and the City
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul”
William Ernest Henley
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”
Anatole France
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Immortality - a fate worse than death.”
Edgar A. Shoaff
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Arthur Schopenhauer