Rudolf Steiner Quotes

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Nobody can say anything to take what's for me away from me. And I live by that.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

A man's character is his fate.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

If only I could change my destiny and be a man, …

Few men can control their own destinies—only the truly great.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.