Sentences with phrase «master of one's own fate»

Less shallow because it recognizes at least that the individual is not master of his fate and can not live for himself alone, but still shallow in supposing that the human group — class, race or species — can do so.

«Man may well have reached that point in history, that stage of his development... where he has not only been made master of his fate, but where his technology and his morality have come face to face.»

Master of my fate?

My situation reminds me of what Clarence Darrow said about the great poem: «I am the master of my fate master of soul.

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» WE Henley

This weakening may be the ecclesiastical counterpart of that decline of respect for authority which has occurred among men who first having thought themselves masters of their fate then, as mass - men, became the prey of powers which moved them about not as persons but as things or bundles of conditionable reflexes.

You were concerned to say that man was somehow the master of his fate, so that without his will God himself was unable to save him from disaster.

I believe we can be masters of our fate.»

«We think we are the masters of our fate,» he tells the congregation, «but the more I live the more I feel that events over which I have no control shape my destiny.

Classen was a man, and though he was not the master of his fate, he at least had the final say on whom he fought and when.

It ends with the famous lines, «I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.»

Parkland students declared themselves masters of their fate, and, in doing so, they have forced the hand of many recalcitrant adults, including their own governor.

«I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.»

Choose from a diverse cast of characters and challenge friends to a battle through both local and online multiplayer but don't forget that your enemy is also the master of your fate!

BOB NICKAS — There are three small paintings here, and each one says: «I Am The Master of My Fate, I Am The Captain Of My Soul.»

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings